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GRYLLUS. 
within a covering, branched all over with veins and ar- 
teries. In this form they remain depofited under the 
furface of the earth, or inclofed in wood, apparently un- 
affedled by the rigour of winter, till the genial heat of 
fpring begin to hatch and vivify them. Then, the fun 
beginning with its warmth to animate all nature, the in- 
fect eggs feel its benign influence ; and generally about 
the beginning of May, each egg produces a larva about 
the fizc of a flea, at firlt of a white colour, but afterwards 
gradually turning brown. 
After having taken thefe meafures for perpetuating 
her kind, the parent animal does not long furvive ; as tha 
winter approaches, flie dries up, feems to feel the effects 
of age, and dies from a total decay. Some aflert that ihe 
is killed by the cold ; others, that Ihe is eaten by worms ; 
but certain it is, that neither male nor female arc feen to 
furvive the winter. 
When examined internally, the grafliopper difeovers a 
very Angular and complicated firu&urc of vifeera ; bc- 
fides the gullet, there is obferved a fmall ftomach j and 
behind that a very large one ; Hill lower down, there is yet 
a third : So that it is not without forne foundation, that all 
the animals of this tribe have been fuppofed to chew the 
cud, as they fo much refemble ruminating animals in 
their internal conformation. Arif.otle informs us, that 
they were greedily fought after as a delicate morfel by 
the Grtcks ; and that the feafon when they were deemed 
mod delicious was a flrort time before they left their 
chryfalis Hate *. The metamorphofes from that Hate is 
performed with great difficulty and agitation ; many pe- 
rifli in this levere effort of nature, and thofe who furvive 
are for fome time in a languid and debilitated Hate f. 
* Hiftoria Ajiimalium. f Reamur, Tom. IV. p. 188. 
