272 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
fasting and prayer were appointed” on account of the threatened 
calamity. 
How shall the ravages of this well-known grasshopper be stayed? 
We doubt not that when the West is more thickly settled, and the 
eggs and young of the Re ANGE exposed to the attacks of domestic 
animals, it will be less abunda 
he habits of this species are he well known, except that they ap- 
pear in mid-summer in the winged state. The wingless larvæ appear 
in June, and, as Harris recommends, hay crops should be mown early, 
before they flyinswarms. The last of summerthey couple, and probably 
lay their eggs in holes in the earth, which are hatched in the spring; at 
least such are the habits of the common Carolina Locust. As Harris 
and late in the sa at of collecting locusts and their eggs, the latter 
being turned out of the ground in little masses, cemented and cov- 
ered with a sort of gum, ahd which they are enveloped by the insects.” 
Various forms of drag-nets can be invented for collecting them in 
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hot water, and fed to swine. An entomological friend has found by 
his own experience, that roasted grasshoppers are excellent eating, — 
‘ better than frogs.” Only let some enterprising genius of the kitchen 
once set the example of offering to his customers roasted grasshop- 
pers, rare done, and fricasseed canker-worms,— for we have it on the 
word of an AEEA that caterpillars are pleasing to the palate of 
n= droves of entomological beeves will supplant their 
vertebrate rivals at the shambles, and instead of etfs, we shall 
have Grasshopper Festivals, and County Caterpillar Show 
GEOLOGY. 
| Tur Two Earuist Known Races or Men rv Evrops.—Recent 
discoveries in archxology, now generally accepted among scientific 
men, tend to show that man has before History gives 
a hint, either by tradition or written record, of his ‘existence. The: 
are races of fossil men, which have peo! certain hen 
passed away, their places to be filled by new and strange peoples- 
Thus the study of prehistoric man belongs with the study of fossil 
e a a The life of man upon the earth 
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