04 
_ The fecond infect which we reckon in our 
fecond clafs of changes is the Grafshopper. I 
preferve one and twenty fpecies of them male 
and female; thefe are nine larger, fix middling, 
and as many fmaller ones, whereof fome are 
confpicuous by their fcarlet wings, others are 
cloathed in purple, others in azure, and others 
have elegant greenifh wings. I preferve alfo fome 
Nymphs, fome Vermicles, and fome little eggs, 
from which proceed the Grafshopper and Lo- 
cuft kinds. Amongft the largeft fpecies, I have 
_ the great deftructive African Locuft, which has 
a cowled or hooded breaft, and two very long 
legs, which, as they have hexagonal thighs, are 
provided alfo witha double row of ferrated and 
Jong teeth; the internal wings glitter with a 
deep purple colour. This belongs to thofe 
{pecies, which do not fhew their colour except 
when they are flying. I have alfo the Locuft 
of the Molucca iflands, which Dr. Padbrugge 
fent me. It has a very flender body like the 
Cavallucus of Redi, and the tail is bent down- 
wards. Its wings are long, and of various beau- 
tiful colours like the Peacock. The neck is 
of uncommon length, and fupports a fhort head. 
That gentleman fent me alfo a figure of the 
Molucca Bruchus, or Grub, the body whereof 
is as big and as thick as a Hen’s egg, and is 
beautifully interwoven with veins like ribs, but 
the legs are very fhort in proportion. I pre- 
ferve with thefe the Spanith Locuft, which 
differs from the African only in its fize, except 
that the veins in its wings are difpofed in a 
different manner, and the colour is reddifh. I 
have alfo the African Locuft with {hort legs, 
and fhort thick horns, wherein one may, ina 
remarkable and diftinét manner, fee the pro- 
minent eyes. Among the middle fpecies I pre- 
ferve the Mantis or divining Locuft, which 
was likewife brought from the Molucca iflands. 
OF this authors invent many idle ftories; one 
is, that when it is alked the way by travellers, 
it fhews it. ‘* This little creature is reckoned 
‘* of {uch a divining nature, fays Mouffet, that 
<* when a boy asks for the way, it {tretches its 
“* foot forward and fhews it, and is feldom or 
never miftaken.”’ The other Locufts that I 
preferve are of the middle fize, and moftly 
french; they are adorned with a wonderful 
variety of colours, as with fo many new- 
fathioned garments: hence they pleafe the eye 
greatly with their natural ornaments, but they 
do not fhew their colour except when they 
fly. 
a is remarkable what {mall difference there 
is between the Worm or Nymph Vermicle of 
the Locuft, and the Locuft itfelf: this confifts 
only in one thing, that the wings, which in 
the Locufts are expanded and fpread over the 
body, are on the contrary enclofed in the 
Nymph, in four little clufters, wherein they 
are quite folded into each other, in like manner 
as in the Worm of the Dragon-fly. It was 
this folding and feparating of the wings, that, 
in my opinion, made Ariftotle, Pliny, Hiero- 
nymus, Aldrovandus, Mouffet, Johnfon, and 
ihe BO -O.k) of N AUR. Bi on 
other curious fearchers into thefe fecrets, call the 
aforefaid Vermicles of Locutfts, featherlefs or un- 
fledged Locufts and Bruchi. The fame creatures 
they afterwards, when their wings began to 
fwell, called Attelabi; and to thefe, when by 
the increafe of the bulk of their bodies, efpe- 
cially thefe of the females, they began to hop 
flowly, but were not yet able to fly, they gave, 
not to mention many other names, the appel- 
lation of Afelli. ‘The word Attelabus properly 
fignifies the Nymph of the Locuft when able 
to walk. We fee feven fpecies great and {mall 
of thefe Nymphs, out of which the Locufts 
iffue. In the figures of the induftrious Hoef- 
nagel, which exhibit fifteen f{pecies, we like- 
wife fee there a delineation of the Nymph Ver- 
micle of the Locuft. When I confider all 
thefe experiments, I cannot imagine for what 
reafon Goedaert fhould write, that Locufts had 
their origin from a Chryfalis; fince Aldrovandus 
and Mouffet, and all other authors make men- 
tion of unfledged Locufts, and their opinion is 
fupported by, and agreeable to, experience. 
I preferve alfo a three-fold ftomach of a Lo= 
euft, which is very like the ftomachs of ani- 
mals that chew the cud, and particularly has 
that part of the ftomach called Echinus, very 
diftinétly vifible. I do not therefore doubt 
but Locufts chew the cud, as well as the ani- 
mals juft. mentioned: indeed, I perfwade my-~ 
felf that I have feen this. 
I have likewife in my poffeffion, the oblong 
eggs of Locufts and their entire ovary, which 
is interwoven with filver-coloured filaments, 
which are doubtlefs ramifications of the afpera — 
arteria, and alfo with veins and arteries. But 
the eggs are all as it were horny, and of a brown 
colour: many of their firft rudiments alfo being 
white and yellow, and covered with a thin coat 
or skin. I preferve thefe in particular cells in 
my cabinet. 
The female Locufts are furnifhed with fharp 
tails, which the males have not. According 
to Aldrovandus, they pierce the ground with 
thefe tails, and bury their eggs under it. Ican 
demonftrate this tail to be quadruple, nay, quin- 
tuple. 
I preferve alfo the teeth of Locufts, and the 
coat or skin which the Nymph Vermicle cafts, 
when the wings of the Locufts begin to {well. | 
No man can form any idea, by what means a 
very thin skin is then feparated from the long 
and {mall horns of the Locufts; nay, and from 
the eyes and teeth, and the fharp-pointed claws. 
In this period the Locufts are fo foft and deli- 
cate, that their legs may be bent like wax, 
and formed into any figure, and in that condi- 
tion may be dried and preferved. 
I havealfo wings of Locufts which I ftopped 
in the act of their exclufion; fo that by this 
means one of their extremities is difplayed or 
rolled out, and the other ftill folded together 
and wrinkled. With thefe wings the Grafs- 
hoppers and Locufts, when they have gone 
through their change, make that crackling noife, 
as Cafferius has very juftly obferved. We alfo fia 
that 
