INSECTS. 



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terror: vrc allude to the Locust {Fig. 98). In these countries 



we are happily exempt from its devastations; but a few 



detached individuals are occasionally wafted hither, and, in 



this way, so many as twenty-three species are now recorded 



as British. For some account of the - 



ravages which they have at various 



times committed, we refer to I{ii-by 



and Spence's Introduction to Eu- 



tomology, vol. i. page 212, where 



much information on the subject has 



been carefully brought together. The 



description given by the Prophet Joel 



is not less remarkable for its fidelity 



than its grandeur. "A fire devoureth 



before them, and behind them a 



flame bumeth: the land is as the 



Garden of Eden before them, and 



behind them a desolate wilderness; 



yea, and nothing shall escape them. 



Like the noise of chariots on the tops 



of mountains shall they leap, like the 



noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong 



people set in battle an-ay." 



Fig. S>7.— Cockroach. 



iio. 98.— Loi-is.1. 



