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INSKCTS ABROAD. 



the earth, both that they may lie the butler concocted, or else 

 better preserved from cold and rains. 



" That they should be generated of the carkasse of a mule 

 or asse (as Plutarch reports in the life of CleonidesJ by putre- 

 faction, I cannot with philosophers determine : first because it 

 was permitted by the Jews to feed on them; secondly, because 

 no man was ever yet an eye-witness of such a putrid and ignoble 

 generation of locusts." 



Tin: insect which is here represented is another of the de- 

 structive creatures which are known by the general name of 

 Locusts. All the insects belonging to this genus have the 

 thorax exceedingly prolonged, so as to form a sort of neck. 



h'n; . Ifl7. -Trysails tnguiculatn. 

 (Red-brown, with coloured win^s.) 



If the reader will refer to the illustration, lie will see that the 

 antennae are constructed after a very curious fashion. In most of 

 tie' Orthoptera these organs are very long and slender, consisting, 

 as we have already seen, of more than two hundred joints. In 

 this genus, however, the material which might have served for 



