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confinement, like the rest of their kind, they became cannibals, 

 and one morning I found a female, who had devoured its male, 

 standing up like a rabbit on her hind legs and suffering all the 

 miseries of indigestion. Placed in the same cage, the males of a 

 Wart-Biter and Great Green Leaf-Cricket played an agreeable 

 duet, but as the habits of one were diurnal and those of the 

 other nocturnal it was always a little difficult to arrange. On 

 leaving the blue waters of Khodes, famous in the days of 

 the Colossus for its roses and promenaders, and heading north- 

 wards, the sailor beholds, as the melon flush of evening dies 

 away, strange islands resembling cinder-heaps passed by in the 

 indistinct light. The Greek islanders were wont to keep diurnal 

 and nocturnal Crickets that drove away their cares, and in this 

 wildly desolate night Aristodicus the Ehodian bewailed the Leaf- 

 Cricket that made the villa of Alidus ring with merriment when 

 the sun drove its chariot out of the sea ; for it had flown away 

 to devour " the dewy flowers of golden Proserpine and meadows 

 of Clymene." With the husbandman the species of Tettigonia, 

 short and thick-set, with broad and thoughtful heads, long 

 enjoyed an evil reputation ; but as they delight in every green 

 thing it is only right to say, in pronouncing judgment, that they 

 prefer the juicy leaves to the dry seeds and ears of corn. The 

 locusts of the Apocalypse that came out of the bottomless pit, if 

 allusion be made to any Orthoptera existing in Patmos or other 

 islands of the volcanic archipelago, were probably some species 

 of Tettigonia, for " Their shapes were like unto horses prepared 

 unto battle ; on their heads were crowns like gold ; their faces 

 were as the faces of men ; they had hair-like antennae, as the 

 hair of women ; their teeth were as the teeth of lions ; they had 

 breast-plates, as it were — breast-plates of iron — and the sound of 

 their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses run- 

 ning to battle ; their tails, or ovipositors, were like unto the 

 stings of scorpions," literally and metaphorically. They had a 

 king over them, whose name was Abaddon or Apollyon, the de- 

 stroyer. A species — Tettigonia albifrons, I think — has still this 

 reputation in Cyprus, where it is known as Sacro acrida or 

 Lauro aurida ; thence Mr. S. Brown, who was destroying locusts 

 in 1885, sent me, on May 16th, some immature specimens. It 

 frequents marshy spots on the shores of the Mediterranean, 



