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one, that first swallowed a few drops of chloro- 

 form, flew away quite briskly after remaining in 

 the cyanide of potassium bottle for three days 

 and nights ! 



Generally grasshoppers are quickly overcome 

 by the vapour. There are many species here, 

 most of them emitting a bad-smelling brown 

 fluid from the mouth when handled ; but one 

 dark green fellow (Phymateus Callipareus), with 

 deep orange under-wings and gold knobs on his 

 collar, begins to throw out a white froth from 

 beneath the collar on each side at an astonish- 

 ing r<ite, there seeming no limit to the supply. 

 This froth smells most abominably, and a 

 hissing noise is plainly heard as it bubbles out. 



A large black scorpion was eight hours in my 

 strongest poison-bottle before he succumbed to 

 the deadly fumes. When I touched him with a 

 stick, after seven hours, he elevated his wicked 

 tail and opened his claws wide in a most savage 

 manner. 



I hope these accounts of killing will not be 

 thought dreadfully cruel, especially by those 



