The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-06-06

tying glass BY the aid of the glass you can
| see the young insect has every feather and
member precisely the same As the large one
| had when he came from the ground in the
! spring. By carefully watching, you will see
the young insect coming out OF the GROUND.
You can sometimes see great numbers tall
ing from high trees. They are like little
notes in the air, and require sharp sight TO
see them. They are so small, and their ap'
parent specific gravity SO inferior, that they
are not injured by the fall.
About the 18th of June, the old locusts
will have disappeared altogether
The locusts do not go deep IN the
ground. They live on the vegetable juices
Of the roots near the surface, which they
take with their shouts OF rostrunl' here
are three email hairs in the snout, which, III
feeding are projected and spread cut over
| the surface OF the roots or leaves OF trees,
and these collect The juice and convey it by
capillary attraction to the stomach. You
| can see this operation very distinctly IN the
perfect insect by watching 1t with u magni-
| flying glass. They have no other mouth or
| means of taking food, either in the larva or
| winged state
The Opipositor is u most curious instru
ment. 1t is about three eighths of an inch
| long, of the size of small pin, hattened at
the point, and the whole forming moder.
ate curve. 1t is composed of a material
very much resembling tortoise SHE'LL of Il
dark reddish brown color. 1t is composed
of three pieces centre piece, which is the
tube or duct, and two side pieces. The cen.
ire piece or tube, has sharp chissel- formed
point, with two sharp projecting points, one
above, the other belowtk oriiice, resembling
fsh's mouth. The two side pieces are
supplied with saw teeth on their edges, and
their fiat faces are rasps. Theya are attached to
the centre piece by tongue and groove. In
use, the centre piece is fixed firmly to the
bark, and the two side pieces commence
working up and down, first one and then the
other, alternately, and thus excavation is
made All this, however, can only be seen
with the aid OF powerful magnifying glass.
On looking at the instrument with the ma :
ked eve no such mechanism would be suS-
pected.
The Musical Orqans are. also, very curl
Gus, and difficult to describe. Directly un-
der the shoulder of the wing on each side of
the chest there is beautiful membrane,
somewhat triangular, convex, and ribbed
with horny ridges. This membrane resembles
small she'll and is stretched over cavity
in the chest, the lower angle connected in.
ternaly with strong muscle On the
breast there are two large scales, one on
each side, firmly attached to the breast
above but free below. On bending the body
backward these scales are elevated and en-
pose two large cavities, also covered with
extremely fine and silken like membranes.
| These cavities are connected with those un-
| der the musical membranes under the wing
shoulders, and probably serve for lungs
When these cavities are filled with air. the
| musical organs or membranes first desert
bed, are made to produce the sound by the
large muscles; the horny ridges OF the
membranes being made to act on each other
with such rapidily that the motion is scarce
ly perccptiblc.
The music, or sound, produced by the
| myriads of insects in warm day is wonder
| lnl. 1t is not deacning us many describe
| it,, --evcn in its high,h it does not interrupt
| ordinary conversations 1t seems like an
atmosphere Of wild monotonous sounds in