Locust

[L. locusta.~\ An insect somewhat like industry a gra hopper in shape, but with shorter antennae 000,000 or feelers and stouter legs. Its hind legs are poses. very strong, enabling it to make long leaps and lumber its wings are beautifully colored, and from their Lungs. great length give it the power of sustaining long of and high occasional flights. “ Locusts fly in thorax great clouds from place to place, and eat up every right green thing where they alight.” In some parts of Asia and Africa they come in such numbers as to darken the sky in their flight, aud they are frequently seen in southern Europe and commit great ravages there. They have also been very destructive in the western United States, where they are known as the Rocky Mountain locusts. The seventeen-year locusts live as larvae in the ground for seventeen years, and afterwards come to the surface and become winged insects. Some species remain underground for a shorter period.