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LECTURE rx. 
word dK^i^cc; in the sacred writings, niay rather 
mean the tender shoots of vegetables; but since 
the fact is so well ascertained that Locusts are 
still eaten in those regions, we need not admit any 
other interpretation than the common one ; nor 
need we wonder that an abstemious Anchoret, 
during his state of solitary seclusion from the 
commerce of the world, should support himself on 
a food which certainly is not to be numbered 
among the luxuries of life, but merely to be re- 
garded as a substitute for food of a more agree- 
able nature. 
I shall only mention as a farther example of 
the Hemipterous insects, the beautiful genus Fid- 
gO)'a or Lantern-Fly. It is distinguished by the 
peculiar structure of the head, which in most spe- 
cies, and more especially in the great or chief 
kind, is of a large, lengthened, and inflated form, 
as if swelled out with air ; and the mouth consists 
of a long, slender tube, lying beneath the breast. 
The F. Lanternaria or South-American Lantern 
Fly is certainly one of the most curious, and even 
one of the most beautiful of insects. It is a na- 
tive of many parts of South- America, and is com- 
mon in Surinam, where it was observed in par- 
