Note 4 — Chapter XI · THE WHITE-FACED DECTICUS: HIS HABITS
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Luckily we have one resource left, that of consulting the successors of the prehistoric insects. There is reason to believe that the Locustids4 of our own period have retained an echo of the ancient customs and can tell us something of the manners of olden time. Let us begin by questioning the Decticus.