[73] The exception is with those in which the wings are not developed in both cases, and in England this peculiarity is confined to species appearing during the winter and early spring.—Ed.
[74] Many of these are placed by some authors among the Pyralina, and by others among the Tortricina.—Ed.
[75] Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire des Insectes, tome ii., page 210 (5e Mémoire).
[76] From [Greek: orthos], straight, and [Greek: pteron], wing, on account of the manner in which the under-wings are folded under the upper.—Ed.
[77] Made a separate Order, Dermaptera, by Kirby.—Ed.
[78] The species of genus Saga sometimes reach extraordinary dimensions. Thus, in 1863, there was found in Syria, after a shower of ordinary locusts, a specimen of the Saga which was three inches and a quarter long. It was presented to the Museum of Natural History of Paris, by M. L. Delair.
[79] "And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt."—Exod. x. 13-15.
[80] "Le Grand Désert," par le Général E. Daumas et E. de Chaucel. In 18mo. Paris, 1860.
[81] "Nouvelles Observations sur les Abeilles," par François Huber. Paris et Genève, in 8vo. 2e edition. 1814.
[82] "L'Intelligence des Bêtes." In 18mo. Paris, 1864.