[122] Cuvier remarks, that the panorpis has a tail very like that of the scorpion; and that the ephemera, the ichneumons and others, have tails also. Aristotle, in the corresponding place, only says that the insects do not use the tail to direct their flight.
[123] These are merely the feelers of the jaws.
[124] Not instead of, but in addition to, the tongue, by the aid of which they suck.
[125] Evidently meaning the trunk.
[126] See B. xxix. c. 39.
[127] It is not true that the young locusts are destitute of feet.
[128] 7th May.
[129] 18th July.
[130] 11th May.
[131] Cuvier treats this story as purely imaginary.