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and, it is said, successfully, tlie people applying them to the 

 parts aftected, and allowing them to bite their warts. It 

 is not improbable that the remedy owes its successful ef- 

 fect to the causticity of their saliva, which may act like the 

 lapis infernalis. 



Grasshoppers are very often subject to diseases arising 

 from the presence of intestinal worms, particularly the Hair- 

 worm ( Gordius), which not unfrequently causes their death. 



In Germany Grasshoppers are called Heupferde, that is, 

 " Hay-horses," because they generally feed on grasses, and 

 their head has something of the form of a horse's head. The 

 French call them Sauterelles, that is, " Hoppers." 



Carolina Grasshopper. 



The Carolina Grasshopper {Gryllus Carolina, Fig. 22) 

 is a very common insect of this Order, and is found in great 

 numbers in the months of August, September, and October 

 throughout the United States. So numerous are they, in 

 fact, that one can not walk across a field or meadow with- 



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