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It will be remembered that Sir John Lubbock exhibited specimens of 
these adult larvee at the November meeting of our Society last year, received 
from Mr. Frank Calvert, of the Dardanelles; but some doubts were then 
expressed as to their being the offspring of any of the Cantharid@, as was 
supposed. 
Sir Sidney Saunders also possesses numerous living specimens of these 
same larve, hitherto undeveloped, transmitted to him last autumn by 
Mr. Frank Calvert, together with the following details respecting their 
habits :— 
‘In taking these insects I found the larve, with very few exceptions, to 
have left the pods, and rolled up in a torpid state, some buried amongst the 
pods, others below. ‘The grubs did not quit the pods until these were 
softened by the rain, after several months’ drought. It is strange amongst 
the number of larvee I have taken up lately there are no pupe that I have 
seen. May not the two specimens I found previously (as reported before) 
belong to some other species of insect ? 
“The female locust deposits her eggs, by preference, on hill country in 
arid uncultivated soils, never in land under cultivation. A fluid is secreted 
by the locust which, softening the hard soil, enables the lower part of the 
body, up to the hinder legs, to be worked in to the depth of about an inch. 
During this operation the locust is covered with others of its kind: in the 
localities where the insect is comparatively rare, the female locust, in 
the act of depositing her eggs, can be always detected by the small heap 
of other locusts which entirely cover her. The eggs, thirty to forty in 
number, are then deposited bodily (sic), enveloped in a thin membrane, 
in the form of a slightly curved cylinder about seven-eighths of an inch in 
length and in an erect position. The mucous liquid hardens the coating 
earth as it dries, and forms a case or cyst round the membrane which 
protects the eggs from the inclemency of the weather. Another remarkable 
feature in the natural history of the locust is that the presence of the 
parasite cannot be traced back—neither to former visitations of the locust, 
nor even to last year (1879), when it is to be presumed the destroyer was 
present, though in smaller numbers. I am informed that the larva has 
been found also in the neighbourhood of Smyrna. The Pasha of the 
Dardanelles, who has received reports from all parts of the province, 
informed me that the larva was found wherever the pods have been 
deposited, though in very various proportions, from one per cent. upwards. 
In those pods I examined I found a minimum of eight to as high as ninety 
per cent. attacked by the parasite. I have been assured from different 
sources that the flight of locusts was accompanied by numerous moths or 
flies.” 
In the recently published ‘Second Report of the United States Ento- 
mological Commission, Washington, 1880 ’—to which, as well as to the 
