ZOOLOGY. Ill 



roach, but whether they were merely the young of B. Amefn- 

 cana and B.Maderensia, or a totally different species, we have 

 not been able to ascertain. The larger measured about |-iach 

 in length, having the whole body of a dark chesnut brown 

 colour; the other kind somewhat smaller ia size, having 

 the body banded with yellow and dark chfesnut brown 

 stripes. 



After a day or two of cold weather iu October, we 

 observed, when turning over stones in search of speci- 

 mens, that these cockroaches were benumbed, and perfectly 

 helpless. In similar situations, we almost invariably found 

 a large species of cricket, in its various stages of growth, 

 from youth to maturity ; the latter stage having the wings 

 folly developed, while in the former, merely small sprouts 

 could be discerned. It was from these facts we concluded 

 (though, perhaps, incorrectly), that the wingless cockroaches 

 were neither more nor less than the young of B. Americana 

 and B. Maderensia. 



On the sloping banks of the well-known sand lulls, in 

 Paget's parish, we first became acquainted with a small, 

 yellowish - brown coloured grasshopper. It reminded us 

 greatly in its habits, of our common green-coloured chirping 

 friend of Old England, and was just as dif&cult to capture. 

 The insect is common on the open tracts, particularly where 

 the sandy waste is relieved by tufts of grass. 



A species of locust, which we take to be identical with 

 the common locust of the American continent, is found in 

 similar situations, although not so numerously. On the parade 

 groTUid, in rear of the barracks, at St. George's, this insect is 

 in some abundance during the month of September. A ludi- 

 crous account of the capture of a specimen, now before us, 



