the earth. From the 24th of May to a of June 
Notes on certain parts of the State of Ohio. $27 
two and three feet i in ag —- a most ere ae ble 
disgustin 
vay fee are very sale i in the low nde they on 
Sometimes found six inches in length, and weighing near; 
half a pound. They taste very much like the lobster; rm 
like him, have the property of reproducing their antenna, or 
this limbs, when broken off, in the course of a Pad weehee “’ 
‘noticed only one kind of them. We have a species of 
insect wiieh resembles the snail, but is destitute of a shell. It 
is eae in our gardens, and is fond of crawling upon ripe 
which it finds ‘on the ground, such as i peachiaae melons, 
ir insects are so numerous and so various, that it would 
tae a-volume to describe then alone:~ One of the most in- 
teresting and curious of this class is the Cicada. It nearly re- 
sembles the harvest-fly, but issmaller. They are said to ap- 
pear only at stated periods, which some have fixed at seven- 
teen, and others at fourteen years. - [ have one record of 
ing in this country, the 14th of May, 1812. I was 
then told it was seventeen ar since they were last here, 
viz. in 1795. They gra ont disappeared, and by the 
first of July were all gone. month of May was cold and 
wet, and very unfavourable “ as egress of the cicada from 
», their 
numbers increased daily, atan reas He 
ae 
or “ locust,” as — is ~~ when he firs ies from 
and one 
the earth, is about ch and a hadi. 
of an inch in neschaen While oats ae way to angina sur- 
face, he has the appearance of a er worm or grub; the 
hole which he makes is about the same diameter with his 
paca oe ore and seems to be made with When 
e 
nigh, they are white an soft. They then attach them- 
: to some bush, tree, or post, and wait until the ac- 
tion of the air has dried the shell with which they are enve- 
loped : the shell then bursts on the back for about one third of 
its length, and — opening the cicada creeps, as from 
aprison. Their bodies are then very tender, and they can 
