[102] A general name for the grasshopper. Cuvier remarks, that Pliny is less clear on this subject than Aristotle, the author from whom he has borrowed.
[103] “Correptis” seems a preferable reading to “conrupti,” that adopted by Sillig.
[104] The female has this, and employs it for piercing dead branches in which to deposit its eggs.
[105] The “mother of the grasshopper.”
[106] The trunk of the grasshopper, Cuvier says, is situate so low down, that it seems to be attached to the breast. With it the insect extracts the juices of leaves and stalks.
[107] Or “twig-grasshopper.”
[108] Or “corn-grasshopper.”
[109] Or “oat-grasshopper.”
[110] The river Cæcina. See B. iii. c. 15. This river is by Strabo, B. vi. c. 260, called the Alex. Ælian has the story that the Locrian grasshoppers become silent in the territory of Rhegium, and those of Rhegium in the territory of Locri, thereby implying that they each have a note in its own respective country.
[111] Cuvier says that the observations in this Chapter, derived from Aristotle, are remarkable for their exactness, and show that that philosopher had studied insects with the greatest attention.