Book TI. Iland of BARBADOS. 
« Its Wings are large, in proportion to the Body ; and of a greyifh-ruffet 
Colour. 
The Body is fupported by Three Pair of Legs; the hinder, with which 
he {prings or jumps, are about Two Inches and an half long. 
The Thighs, which are of a ruffet Colour, finely polifhed, and ftained 
with black Lifts, extending lengthways, are of an hexagonal Form ; 
and the Legs are elegantly ftudded with a great many white {mall 
Prickles, fet on, like the Teeth of a Saw, alternately. 
This Kind of Gtafhopper is generally to be feen among the Blades of 
Sugar-canes ; and, when the Guimey Corn is ripe, they feed much upon it. 
The moft ignorant and fuperftitious of the Inhabitants are very appre- 
henfive of fome approaching Illnefs to. the Family, whenever they fly 
into their Houfes in the Evening, or in the Night. 
There were bred, or came to the Ifland, fuch vaft Swarms of thefe in 
the Year 1734-5. that they deftroyed almoft every green tender Plant. 
So great was the Deftruétion that they caufed, efpecially among the 
Potato-Vines, upon:whofe Roots the poor People chiefly fubfift, and fuch 
the Scarcity of Food, occafioned thereby, efpecially 11 43.974 Philip's 
Parifh, that there was a Colle&tion made for the Sufferers thro’ the reft of 
the Ifland. Thefe differ not in their Make from the Locufts that are to 
be feen in the Repofitories of the Curious. 
The GREEN GR ASHOPPER. 
HIS is fomewhat lefs than the Ath-coloured Grafhopper already 
defcribed ; but differs in no other material Circumftance. 
The BLACK-SPOTTED BUTTERFLY. 
! / HIS is larger than any hereafter defcribed. 
Its Wings have a few pale-red and whitith Spots intermixed 
with the Black. 
The GREENISH-YELLOw BUTTERFLY. 
HIS is about Three-quarters of an Inch long. 
The Back is covered with a foft greenifh Down. 
The Abdomen is divided into feveral Aunuli, or Sections, tho’ {carce 
perceivable. 
Its Antenne are about half an Inch long, and its Legs Six in Number. 
It hath Four very thin membranaceous Wings, covered with a fine 
yellow Mealineis. 
This mealy Duft, when viewed thro’ a Microfcope, appears to be fo 
many regular Quills, feathered with the utmoft Exadtnefs and Proportion. 
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