Page:The History of the Island of Dominica.djvu/81

 is like that of a grashopper, it has two horns, coniderably longer than its own body, which is about three inches, and of one continued thicknes, like a large caterpillar. It has ix legs, which are raied and doubled above its body, like the pringing legs of a grashopper, but they have not the ame power, erving it only to walk with, which it does very fat. It has no wings, is of a deep green colour, and is perfectly harmles.

The vegetable fly is a remarkable inect. It is of the appearance and ize of a mall cockchaer, and buries itelf in the ground, where it dies, and from its body prings up a mall plant, which reembles a coffee-tree plant, only its leaves are much maller. The plant which prings from this inect is often overlooked, from the uppoition people have of its being no other than a coffee plant; but on examining it properly, the difference is eaily ditinguihed, from the head, body, and feet