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Chili is much less infested with grasshoppers than 

 Gujo, and many other countries in America. There 

 is but one species with which I am acquainted ; it is 

 found upon fruit trees, and is about six inches long. 

 When the insect extends its legs, it resembles very- 

 much a twig of the tree upon which it keeps. The 

 common people, according to the vulgar notion that 

 every thing deformed has some connection with evil 

 spirits, call it the devil's horse.* It is not a common 

 insect, and appears to me to resemble the grillus cíe- 

 phas of Linnaeus. Bed-bugs were unknown in Chili 

 till within the last sixty years. They are said to have 

 been first introduced by the European ships, but have 

 since increased very much in the northern provinces, 

 particularly in St. Jago. The southern provinces are 

 as yet exempt from this troublesome insect. 



The glow worms that I have seen were in general 

 similar to those of Italy. But one night as I was 

 passing a little wood, I observed three insects as large 

 as the death' s head sphinx [s]Aim^2itYO^os) which gave 

 a very bright light. My attempts to take them, how- 

 ever, were fruitless, and I was never afterwards able 

 to discover any of them, but I am of opinion that they 

 were: a species of the lantern-fly. 



Of caterpillars there is a great variety of species ; 

 and in the summer the fields of Chili are embellished 

 ivith the most beautiful butterflies. Among them 

 are some that are remarkable for their size and the 

 splendour of their colours. Of these, the most dis- 



* From the author's description, this insect appears rather to 

 belong to the genus of mantis than any other.... J*'r. Trans. 



