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in its perfect state. In the nymph state, it moves and eats ; and 

 there is only this difference, that the wings are not moved and 

 expanded as in the perfect state, but are beautifully folded up in 

 small compass, and form the appearance of two small buttons .n 

 the shoulder. 



They fly in countless myriads, and where they descend, they 

 devour every particle of green 

 herbage — the trees are stripped 

 of their leaves, the grass and corn 

 is eaten to the very ground ; for 

 their jaws are so strong as to in- 

 flict a severe wound when the 

 insect is incautiously handled. 

 Nor does the misdhief end with 

 their life, for their dead bodies 

 often accumulate in such numbers that the air is even dangerously 

 infected. They infest Africa and Central Asia, but they annually 

 make incursions to Europe, where the damage they occasion is 



Amboyna Locust. 



