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The designation of Meyen which the systemists must have overlooked, has the priority of Haan's; but it requires to be altered to Oedipoda Manilensis, as the species does not belong to the genus acridium in the modern sense. It occurs also in Luzon and in Timor, and is closely allied to our European migratory locusts Oedipoda migratoria.
Coconut soap is very hard, and brilliantly white, and is dissolved in salt water more easily than any other soap. On Pigafetta's map Leyte is divided into two parts, the north being called Baibay, and the south Ceylon. Pigaf., 70. According to Dr. Gerstaecker: Oedipoda subfasciata, Haan, Acridium Manilense, Meyen.
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