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These large crickets are very common in the 

 sands which I traversed ; they fly better and to a 

 greater distance than the other insects of the same 

 species, and it is not easy to catch them. 



The third insect which I found in the same de- 

 sert, on the brink of a little bason of rain water, 

 was an aquatic scorpion, hepa or nepa. Its an- 

 tenna?, if, indeed, we ought to regard as anten- 

 nae, parts which have a greater resemblance to 

 claws, are in the form of the nippers of crabs. It 

 has but one joint on each tarsus. The eyes are 

 very large and black. The abdomen, extremely 

 flattened, is terminated by two appendages in form 

 of a forked tail. The wings are blackish ; the in- 

 sect is yellow in every other part. Little length- 

 ened eggs, pointed, and of a bright red, were at- 

 tached by one of their extremities to the belly of 

 this individual. 



Finally, the fourth species was a scarabeus, ( i/^ht 

 lines in length. The antennae were in a knot like 

 leaves, and the head broad and flattened in front ; 

 it formed a projecting plate on its summit, by two 

 small points, and by other little advancing points 

 on its anterior border. The corselet was broad, 

 bordered, and shining on the half of its length, 

 and rough as shagreen through the remainder. A 

 shield between the sheaths ; these were striped 

 with little pointb hardly discernible j the body was 



b £ 2 convex 



