Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . is caught it is generally killed and pinned out, assomething a little out of the common, but veryrarely is it kept alive, and consequently little ornothing is known of its habits. My friend just mentions it in the volume for 1866, andMrs. Watney also states one fact concerning itsfood. Were it better known, I suppose we shouldhave a recognized English name for it; as it is, itgoes by the name of Green Locust, or the one atthe head of this article. But, scientifically, it isn
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . is caught it is generally killed and pinned out, assomething a little out of the common, but veryrarely is it kept alive, and consequently little ornothing is known of its habits. My friend just mentions it in the volume for 1866, andMrs. Watney also states one fact concerning itsfood. Were it better known, I suppose we shouldhave a recognized English name for it; as it is, itgoes by the name of Green Locust, or the one atthe head of this article. But, scientifically, it isneither a locust nor a grasshopper, both of whichare included in the family Loemtida, but this belongsto the Gryllidtf, which is distinguished from theformer—by the presence in the females of a for-midable looking ovipositor, extending from the endof the body. Mr. Tate calls it the HorseheadGrasshopper; but I do not see why the title shouldbe applied solely to this species, as all of the tribehave heads much alike ; perhaps the resemblance toa horses head is more striking in viridissima fromits great I caught a female two or three weeks ago as itsat on the head of a large flower, and brought ithome captive. It has been living in a glass globeever since, and at the present moment is doing aconstitutional over my writing table; not, I fear,appreciating the honour I am doing it by giving itshistory in the pages of Science-Gossip ; at any rate,it does not look as if it did, being busily engaged indiscussing the contents of a cabbage stalk I pur-posely laid in its way. I did not know at first whatfood to supply it with, animal or vegetable, untilI thought of Mrs. Watneys note above referred put in some grass well moistened, a piece of cookedbeef, and, as I knew the latter would not be easilyobtained in the creatures own haunts, a couple ofhouse flies as well. It treated both flies and grasswith great unconcern; but when one of the ct?i-tenncs came in contact with the me
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