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ORTHOPTERA. 
3. Walkers (^Orthoptera amhulatoria)^ like the spectres 
or walking-sticks, having weak and slender legs, which do 
not admit of rapid motion ; and 
4. Jumpers (^Orthoptera saltatoria)^ such as crickets, grass¬ 
hoppers, and locusts, in which the thighs of the hind legs are 
much larger than the others, and are filled and moved with 
powerful muscles, Avhich enable these insects to leap with 
facility. 
I. RUNNERS. [Orthoptera Cursoria.) 
In English works on gardening, earwigs are reckoned 
amono; obnoxious insects, various remedies are suo:o:ested to 
banish them from the garden, and even traps and other 
devices are described for capturing and destroying them. 
They have a rather long and somewhat flattened body, 
which is armed at the hinder end with a pair of slender 
sharp-pointed blades, opening and shutting horizontally like 
scissors, or like a pair of nippers, which suggested the name 
of Forficula^ literally little nippers, applied to them by scien¬ 
tific Avriters. Although no well authenticated instances are 
on record of their entering the human ear, yet, during the 
daytime, they creep into all kinds of crevices for the sake 
of concealment, and come out to feed chiefly by night. It 
is common Avith English gardeners to hang up, among the 
floAvers and fruit-trees subject to their attacks, pieces of hol- 
loAV reeds, lobster claAvs, and the like, which offer enticing 
places of retreat for these insects on the approach of daylight, 
and by means thereof great numbers of them are obtained 
in the morning. The little creeping animal, Avith numerous 
legs, commonly but erroneously called earAvig in America, is 
not an insect; but of the true earAvig Ave have seA^eral species, 
though they are by no means common, and certainly never 
appear in such numbers as to prove seriously injurious to 
A^egetation. Nevertheless, it seemed Avell to give to this kind 
of insect a passing notice in its proper place among the 
Orthoptera, Avere it only for its notoriety in other countries. 
