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ORTHOPTERA. 
3. Walkers ( Orthoptera ambulator id), 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 ai - e filled and moved with 
powerful muscles, which enable these insects to leap with 
facility. 
I. RUNNERS. ( Orthoptera Cursorla.) 
In English works on gardening, earwigs are reckoned 
among obnoxious insects, various remedies are suggested 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 
scissoi’s, or like a pair of nippers, which suggested the name 
of Forjicala, literally little nippers, applied to them by scien- 
tific writers. Although no well axxthenticated instances are 
on l’ecord 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 with English gax’deners to hang up, among the 
flowers and fruit-trees subject to their attacks, pieces of hol- 
low l'eeds, lobster claws, and the like, which offer enticing 
places of retreat for these insects on the appi-oach of daylight, 
and by means thei’eof great number's of them are obtained 
in the morning. The little creeping animal, with numerous 
legs, commonly but erroneously called earwig in Anxerica, is 
not an insect ; but of the trae earwig we have several species, 
though they are by no means common, and certainly never 
appear in such numbers as to prove serioxisly injurious to 
vegetation. Nevertheless, it seemed well to give to this kind 
of insect a passing notice in its proper place among the 
Orthoptera, were it only for its notoriety in other countries. 
