14 GRYLLUS, 



within a covering, branched all over with veins and ar- 

 teries. In this form rhey remain depolited under the 

 furface of the earth, or inclolVd in wood, apparently un- 

 affedled by the rigour of winter, till the genial heat of 

 fpring begin to hatch and vivify them. Then, the fun 

 beginning with its warmth to animate all nature, the in- 

 feci eggs feel its benign influence ; and generally about 

 the beginning of May, each egg produces a larva about 

 the fize of a fit a, at firft of a white colour, but afterwards 

 gradually turning brown. 



After having taken thefe meafures for perpetuating 

 her kind, the parent animal does not long furvive ; as the 

 winter approaches, flie dries up, feems to feel the eftr^ts 

 of age, and dies from a total decay. Some afiert that fhe 

 is killed by the cold , others, that llie ig eaten by worms ; 

 but certain it is, that neither male nor female are feen to 

 furvive the winter. 



When examined internally, the grafhopper difcovcrs a 

 very fingular and complicated (iru£ture of viicera ; be- 

 fides the gullet, there is obferved a fmall ftomach ; and 

 behind that a very large one ; flill lower down, there is yet 

 a third : So that it is not without fome foundation, that all 

 the animals of this tribe have been fuppofed to chew the 

 cud, as they fo much refemble ruminatmg animals in 

 their internal conformation. Arijiotle informs us, that 

 they were greedily fought after as a delicate morfel by 

 the Greeks ; and that the feafon when they were deemed 

 nioit delicious was a fhcrt lime before they lelt their 

 chryfalis llate *. The iietantorphofes from that Hate is 

 performed with great difficulty and agitation ; many pe- 

 riih in this fevere effort of nature, and thofe who furvive 

 arc for fome time in a languid and debilitated ftatef, 



• Hifforia Aaimalium. \ ^eamur, Tom. IV. p. i82. 



