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1601, a piece of ground, of about 200 acres, was suddenly covered, as 

 if the same had fallen in a shower out of the air, with a kind of cater- 

 pillar or green worm, having many legs, and bare without hair. They 

 were found in such abundance that a man could not tread on the ground 

 without crushing twenty or thirty of them : being opened, there was 

 nothing found within them but grass. The place was on a hill in the 

 parish of Maen-clochog. After they had continued three weeks, there 

 resorted thither an infinite number of sea-mews and crows, which in a 

 few days consumed them all ; the swine also fed upon these worms 

 eagerly, and became very fat. Swarms of locusts appeared on the British 

 coasts in the year 1693. They were first seen in Pembrokeshire about 

 the 20th October. In North Wales, two vast swarms of them were seen 

 in the air." — Extracted from the Philosophical Transactions, 1693-4. 

 In 1742, at the end of August, great damage was done to the pastures, 

 particularly about Bristol, by swarms of grasshoppers. In 1748 also, 

 locusts were observed here in considerable numbers, but, providentially, 

 they soon perished without propagating. These were evidently strag- 

 glers from the vast swarms, which in the preceding year did such in- 

 finite damage in Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania, Hungary, and 

 Poland. In 1858, a great number of locusts were found in September, 

 amongst corn fields, in most of the Shetland Islands, as likewise in the 

 bare and isolated Skerry Islands. Numbers were also seen on the North- 

 east coast of Scotland, and also in England, one being taken here on the 

 1st September. 



48. P. cinerascens, Fab. 



Christii 3 Curt. This locust has been most frequently taken in the 

 East of England. 



49. P. stridulus, Linn. Stewart gives this as British, but probably erron- 

 eously. 



50. (Edipoda c&rulescens, Linn. This is also introduced by Stewart as in- 

 digenous, but evidently without authority. 



51. Acrydium peregrinnm, Cliv. A considerable number of this locust were 

 taken in Cornwall, in October, 1870 : some weie captured at Palmouth, 

 and about thirty in or near Plymouth. 



52. Tettix subulata, Linn. A common species. 



pallescenSj Zett. 

 marginatum, Zett. 

 humerale, Zett. 

 dorsata, Zett. 

 Umaculatmn, Zett. 



