ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.* 

 Walter Aubrey Kidd, Esq., M.D., F.Z.S., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were I'ead and confirmed. 



A paper entitled "Locusts and Grasshoppers" (illustrated by specimens 

 from the author's collection), by Eev. F. A. Walker, D,D., F.L.S., was 

 then read by the author. 



LOCUSTS AND GRASSHOPPERS, WITH SPECIAL 

 REFERENCE TO BIBLICAL SPECIES. (Illus- 

 trated by specimens from the Author's collection.) 

 By Rev. F. A. Walker, D.D., F.L.S. 



LOCUSTS and grasshoppers may bs regarded as con- 

 stituting two great families of one of the leading 

 orders of insects known as Orthoptera, or straight wings, 

 from the fact of the said wings being of one uniform width 

 in this group, without angles, sinuosities, or scalloped 

 edging. 



Insects of this tribe possess four wings, the front pair 

 being smaller than the hinder, and often leathery, whereas 

 the latter are membranous, and the front wings moreover 

 are frequently of a different colour from the hinder, being 

 green, whereas the latter are pink or red, as in the instance 

 of several tropical locusts, or dusky or mottled brown, 

 whereas the latter are red or blue as in the instance of 

 the continental genus of grasshoppers known as CEdipoda. 



Locusts and grasshoppers themselves are divided into 

 many different genera in their respective families, and 

 several other tribes (as the Achetidae, to which the crickets 

 belong, the Blattida;, which comprehend the cockroaches, 



* Monday, April 7th, 1902. 



