Note 9 — Chapter III · THE LANGUEDOCIAN SCORPION: THE POISON
Bernard Miall translation
Another powerful Acridian, the Tryxalis9, with the immensely long shanks and the sugar-loaf head, ends like the Locust: her death-agony lasts some hours. Among the sword-bearers, the Grasshoppers, I have seen this gradual paralysis, which is not yet death, but which is no longer life, prolonged for a week. This time the subject is the Vine Ephippiger.10