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to. Only in one passage, namely, Jereraiah li, 27, the rough 

 caterpillars possibly indicate the ]arva3 of Arctia caja, the 

 common tiger moth, popularly known as •' the woolly bear," 

 and not the larvae of the locusts, from the term rough, 

 hairy, employed. The hairs of said larva have tirticating 

 and irritating properties, and the moth is common over all 

 Europe. On the other hand, if destructive numbers are 

 indicated, the larvas of the locust far exceed those of any 

 species of moths. 



On turning to the Avritings of tJie minor prophets, Ave find 

 therein three passages descriptive of the locust, or to speak 

 with greater accuracy, of the locust and the grasshopper 

 alike, and moreover of the locust and of its larva too, and 

 also of different species of locust, both in the perfect and 

 in the larval condition, e.g., Joel i, 4 — " That which the 

 palmerworm {KCLfjurrj) hath left hath the locust {aKpi<i) eaten; 

 and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm 

 (f3povxo<i) eaten ; and that which the cankerworm hath 

 left hath the caterpiller (ipvai^t]) eaten." Amos vii, 1, 2 — 

 " Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me ; and, behokl, 

 He formed grasshoppers (locusts R.V.) in the beginning 

 of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the 

 latter growth after the king's mowings. And it came to 

 pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass 

 of the land, then I said, Lord God, forgive, I beseech 

 Thee : by Avhom shall Jacob arise? for he is small." Nahum 

 iii, 15-17 — " Then shall the fire devour thee ; the sword shall 

 cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm : 

 make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself 

 many as the locusts.* Thou hast multiplied thy merchants 

 above the stars of heaven : the cankerwormf spoileth, and 

 fleeth away. Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy 

 captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the 

 hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee 

 away, and their place is not known where they are," 



N.B. — The forming of grasshoppers recorded in Amos 

 vii, 1, 2, is an interesting scientific fact revealing a state 

 and degree of knowledge one might hardly have expected 

 at that early period, Amos, it is true, owing to his vocation 



* Ixx ^povxos ; both locust and cankerworm rendered ^povxos, wingless 

 locust, uKpii rendered grasshoppers both in A.V. and R.V. 



+ Ixx jBpovxos uTTeXa^os, a locust without wings in classical Greek. 



