LOCUST. 159 



This formidable Locust is generally of a 

 brownish colour, Y-arietJ with pale red, or 

 flesh-colour, and the legs are frequently 

 blueish. In the year 1748 it appeared in 

 irregular flights, in several parts of Europe, 

 as in Germany, France, and England: and 

 in this capital itself, and its neighbourhood, 

 great numbers were seen: they perished, 

 however, in a short time, and were happily 

 not productive of any material mischief, 

 having been probably driven by some irre- 

 gular wind out of their intended course, and 

 weakened by the coolness of the climate. 



From a paper published in the 18th vo- 

 lume of the Philosophical Transactions, we 

 find that in the year 1693, swarms of this 

 species of Locust settled in some parts 

 of Wales. Two vast flights were observed 

 in the air not far from the town of Dol- 

 galken in Merionethshire : the others fell 

 in Pembrokeshire. From a letter published 

 in the 38th volume of the same work, it 

 appears that some parts of Germany, parti- 

 cularly in the Marsh of Brandenburgh, &c. 

 suffered considerable injury from the depre- 

 dations of these animals. They made their 



