Note 5 — Chapter XI · THE WHITE-FACED DECTICUS: HIS HABITS
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
A capsule of this kind is a rare, an infinitely rare thing in the world of to-day. So far as I know, the Cephalopods5 and the Scolopendras6 are, in our time, the only other animals that make use of the queer apparatus. Now Octopuses and Millepedes date back to the earliest ages. The Decticus, another representative of the old world, seems to tell us that what is a curious exception now might well have been a more or less general rule originally, all the more so as we shall come upon similar incidents in the case of the other Grasshoppers.