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instances undoubtedly be prevented. In alluding at present more 

 particularly to one country, namely, the Crimea, I think that some 

 good might there be effected ; the descriptions relating to the 

 sufferings of those people by the desolating armies of locusts are 

 harrowing to read, and must excite the attention of the philan- 

 thropist as well as of the naturalist. 



That unfortunate country almost annually suffers from this 

 dreadful scourge, which devastates their lands ; and when we 

 consider it is not merely the yearly crops of corn and pasturage, 

 but all that can be denominated vegetation, which is annihilated, — 

 that it is not the whole crops of one year's growth only, but that of 

 several succeeding years rendered comparatively unproductive by 

 their attacks, — I cannot but repeat again the above recommendation 

 of a levee-en-masse, and I am sure it will not be deemed prepos- 

 terous when the result must prove decidedly beneficial. 



Hemiptera. 



1. Tett'igonia Antiquorum. 



Tettigonia, Tettigometra, Tctllx, and Cicada. Under these several 

 names in the different stages which this insect passes through, we 

 learn that it was eaten by the Greeks ; as it is probably unrecog- 

 nized by moderns, I give it the provisional name of T. Anllqmrum. 



2. Tett'igonia Parthorum. 



According to Pliny, the Parthians regaled on a species of Telti- 

 gQfia; I merely add a specific name to distinguish it from any that 

 possibly were eaten as food in Greece. 



3. Tettigonia Septendecim. 



A species to which the above name is given is eaten by the 

 American Indians at the present day, who pluck off the wings 

 and boil them. 



3. Tettigonia Bennetii, Hope. 



Mr. George Bennett, in his Wanderings in New South Wales, 

 states that the Aborigines used as food the Tettigonia or Frocr- 

 hoppers, which they call Galang, first stripping them of their 

 wings ; as the species is apparently unnamed, I have added that 

 name, Bennetii, in honour of that enterprising traveller. 



