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THE KEV. F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S.^ ON 



«peaks most liiglily of the extraordiiiaiy fertility of tlio 

 country, as in spite of uU these serious drawbacks, the 

 condition of the maize fields and vineyards which I beheld 

 was most flourishing. I have also been sent specimens of 

 Aci'idiitm peregrinum from Jerusalem. Both male and female 

 have the upper wings numerously spotted with brown. The 

 Tipper wing's of the male are of a daflodil yellow ; those of 

 the female are browner. Of two other species also previously 

 mentioned, Actidiuni tataiifuin and Trnxalis nasuta, I possess 

 specimens of the former from Lido, Solfatara, and Beyrout, 

 and of the latter from Lido, Bellagio, Florence, Ajaccio, 

 Jafia. 



The historical books of the Old Testament and the Psahns 

 contain five passages relative to the locust, to wit, Judges 

 vi, 5, '• For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and 

 they came as grasshoppers* (a/cpi?, lxx)for multitude; for both 

 they and their camels were without number : and they entered 

 into the land to destroy it" ; 1 Kings viii. 87, " If there be 

 in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, 

 locust, or if there be caterpiller "f ; 2 Chronicles vii, I'd, "If I 

 command the locusts to devour the land " ; Psalm Ixxviii, 4t), 

 "He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller,+ and their 

 labour unto the locust " ; Psalm cv, 34, " Locusts came, and 

 caterpillers,§ and that without number, and did eat up all the 

 herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground." 

 Apropos of Judges vi, 5, the migratory habits of Orthoptera 

 would seem to be indicated, and in reference to 1 Kings 

 viii. Psalm Ixxviii, Psalm cv, and also to other passages in 

 the Prophets, the lanw of locusts would seem to be signified 

 by eater piUars, caterpillars being mentioned in the same 

 clause, or at all events the same verse, as locusts. 



There are five passages in Avliich the locust and caterpillar 

 are so mentioned together. What the larvae had spared, the 

 matured and perfect insects destroyed, and then again the 

 larvae. To translate the young of the locust by the word 

 caterpillar is apt to give rise to a misconception, as caterpillar 

 is only properly used when it designates the rudimentary 

 condition of the butterfly or moth. Larv;\i, on the other 

 hand, refer to the first stages of all orders of insects. 



"* Locusts in E.V. 

 t (pvailirj, Ixx, red blight in corn. 

 1 epvcrijir] in Ixx, red blight in corn. 



§ t'ankerworm in K.V., (ipovxo^ in ixx, but this is really a locust with- 

 out wings. 



