eo NATURAL HISTORY. 
_ Le Bruin informs us, on the gth of Odober near Rama in the. Hoh 
Land, there was a fouth-eaft wind, which blew over the wildernefs, and 
caufed a violent heat, that lafted feveral days. He is of opinion, that 
it is to this wind, that the prodigious number of Locufts are owings’ | 
which flock thither in.certain years, and cover the furface of the earth. 
In the {pace of two hours, they devoured all the grafs and herbs round 
about Rama. ‘There are many birds that feed upon them, and parti- — 
cularly ftorks. At the time when the locufts engender, they make 
holes in the earth, about four feet deep, where they lay. their eggs, 
which are about the. fize of caraway comfits, there being bundles of 
them together, at leaft four-fcore in number. In fifteen or-fixteen days 
time, they become young Locuifts, and are all over black, when firlt 
hatched; but in twenty-four hours they change, and become green; 
however it is three weeks before they can ufe their wings. In many! 
places where thefe infeéts die upon the ground, there arifes fuch.a flencly 
from their bodies, that it often breeds a dreadful plague. 
CHAP In 
OF FOUR WINGED INSECTS. 
F thefe there are feveral forts, the firft of which mentioned by Liz | 
naus, is the Cicada, by which Dale underftands a Bawm Cricket 3' 
but. he means an infect that has a fnout bent downwards, very fhort 
feelers, four cruciated wings, feet proper for leaping, a convex back; © 
and a roundifh breaft. 
The Cuckow-Spit inlet, called by Swvammerdam the Flea-Locuft, and 
by others the Froth-Worm, has an.oblong, obtufe body, and a large — 
head, with fmall eyes:’the external wings are of a dufky brown co- 
lour, marked with two white. fpots, and there is a broad, tranfverfe, 
double line of the fame: the reft ofthe body is of a dufky brown, and 
the head is black. It is ufwally covered over with a frothy matter, 
refembling fpittle, which it does not difcharge at the mouth, but at — 
the vent, and at other parts of the body. 
The Cicada with green wings anda yellow head, is as big as a large © 
_flie, but very narrow in proportion to its length: the external wings 
are of a fine deep green, and the internal of a blueifh grey; the cover- 
ing of the breaft is alfo green, but paler than the wings, and the head’ 
is yellow, marked with two large {pots on the hinder part, and feveral 
{mall ones at the fides::there are alfo tranfverfé ftreaks on:the foreheads 
and the body, is of a-blueifh-grey, with yellow legs: It is commonly. 
feen about water-plants in autumn. Ray calls it the third flea Locuft. 
The Cicada with yellow external wings, is about the fize of a com- 
mon flie, is all over of a beautiful yellow, except when the wings are 
elofed, and then a longitudinal black line appears on each fide the backs’ 
which is fo divided in the middle, to form as it were two lines, the 
one running from the breaft, and the other from the tail to the middles: 
where they are obliquely feparated: the two upper parts of thefe lines" 
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