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with this infe6l, and from whence England heretofore has 
been infefted in the fame manner j but thefe meeting with a 
contrary wind, before they could reach land, their progrefs 
was flopped, and tired with their voyage, they were all driven 
into the fea, which, by the motion of its waves and tides, caft 
their floating bodies in heaps upon the Ihore : It is obferved, 
that they feldom keep above a year together in one place, and 
their ufual ftages, or marches, are computed to be about fix 
miles in a year 5 hitherto their progrels has been wefterly, 
following the courfe of that wind, which blows moft commonly 
in that country. 
Thefe infers have been erroneoufly denominated locufts- 
but the true locuft, much relembling in /liape a common 
gra/liopper, tho' larger, is quite a different fpecies of infe6l 
from this, which belongs to that tribe, called by naturalifts 
KoAsoTTSf'^, Vaginipennis^ the Scarabdsus^ or beetle kind, that 
has ftrong thick cafes to defend and iheath their tender thin 
wings, that lie out of fight, and next the body 5 and this 
fpecies is undoubtedly that particular beetle, called by Ariflotle^ 
in his hiftory of animals, /unAoActf^y?, from its devouring the 
blofloms of apple-trees, and is the Scarab^eus arbor eus of 
Moufet and Charleton^ called by the Englijh^ iDoors^ or 
Hedge- chafers-^ they are much of the bignefs of the common 
black beede, but of a browni/h colour, fomething like that of 
cinnamon 5 they are thick fet with a fine, ihort, downy hair 
that iliews as if they were powdered all over with a fine fort 
of dufl; the cafes of their wings do not entirely cover all the 
back, for their long picked tails, where lie the organs of ge- 
neration, reach a good way beyond them 5 and the indentures 
or joints, on each fide their belly, appear much whiter than 
the refl 5 they are exadly figured by Dr. Lifter^ Scarab, iab, 
Mut, 
Dr. Molyneu^ declares himfelf fully perfuaded, that this 
jnfedl is the very fame, which the Septuagim^ and the vulgar 
Latin tranflation, retaining the Greek word, call ^f«;^@ii, or 
"BruchuSy derived from ^f«;;^ft', Frendeo, or Strideo^ intimating 
the remarkable noife it makes both in its eating and flying- it 
is often mentioned in holy fcripture, Le'uit. 11. 22. yocl i. 4. 
and 2. 25. Nahurn 9. 15, 17; but our Engllfi verfion almoft 
conftantly tranflates this word, /3f8;^^, tho* he thinks impro- 
perly, cancer-worm j fince this only denotes a reptile, whereas 
that term does certainly denote a flying infefl; for the ^^^x^* 
Nahura 3. id, 17. is exprefly ftid to flee, and have wings 3 and 
it 
