[515] The orthography of this name is Troxallis, from the Greek Τρωξαλλις, Gryllus.

[516] De Geer, iii. 132. 173.

[517] De Geer, iii. 7.

[518] Philos. Trans. 1816. t. xix. f. 3, 4.

[519] Ibid. t. xix. f. 1-9.

[520] De Geer, vii. 91. t. v. f. 6, 7.

[521] Ibid. 96— t. v. f. 13, 14, 17, 19. t. vi. f. 2. 5.

[522] Vol. I. [405]—

[523] 65.

[524] Microgr. 202. It has been objected to an excellent primitive writer (Clemens Romanus), that he believed the absurd fable of the phœnix. But surely this may be allowed for in him, who was no naturalist, when a scientific natural philosopher could believe that the clouds are made of spiders web!