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and salted, and sold to 

 the peasantry : when 

 boiled, the yellow ones 

 turn red, and eat like 

 stale shrimps. The 

 Arabs grind them into 

 powder, which they 

 make into small round 

 cakes, that serve for 

 food when bread is 

 scarce. In the Mah- 

 ratta country the peo- 

 ple salt and eat them. 

 They are eaten by the 

 Hottentots, and formed 

 in ancient times part 

 of the diet of the Ethi- 

 opians and Parthians. 

 The Mole-Cricket 

 (Gryllotalpd) is a bur- 

 rower not inferior to 

 the mole, after which it 

 is named, in the singu- 

 lar adaptation of its 

 structure to the habits 

 assigned to it. Like 

 that animal, it has the 

 fore limbs shortened, 



flattened, and enormously strengthened, while their extremities are formed 

 into broad rakes turned obliquely outwards, and armed with stout tooth-like 



FIG. 91. LOCUSTS. 



FIG. 92. MOLE-CKICKET. 



