ZOOLOGY. lil 
roach, but whether they were merely the young of B. Amerv- 
cana and B. Maderensia, or a totally different species, we have 
not been able to ascertain. The larger measured about 3-inch 
in length, having the whole body of a dark chesnut brown 
colour; the other kind somewhat smaller in size, having 
the body banded with yellow and dark chesnut brown 
stripes. 
After a day or two of cold weather in October, we 
observed, when turning over stones in search of speci- 
mens, that these cockroaches were benumbed and perfectly 
helpless. In similar situations, we almost invariably found 
a large species of cricket, in its various stages of growth, 
from youth to maturity; the latter stage having the wings 
fully developed, while in the former, merely small sprouts 
could be discerned. It was from these facts we concluded 
(though, perhaps, incorrectly), that the wingless cockroaches 
were neither more nor less than the young of B. Americana 
and B. Maderensia. 
On the sloping banks of the well-known sand hills, in 
Paget’s parish, we first became acquainted with a small, 
yellowish - brown coloured grasshopper. It reminded us 
greatly in its habits, of our common green-coloured chirping 
friend of Old England, and was just as difficult to capture. 
The insect is common on the open tracts, particularly where 
the sandy waste is relieved by tufts of grass. 
A species of locust, which we take to be identical with 
the common locust of the American continent, is found in 
’ similar situations, although not so numerously. Onthe parade 
eround, in rear of the barracks, at St. George’s, this insect is 
in some abundance during the month of September. A ludi- 
crous account of the capture of a specimen, now before us, 
