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VI. Locufta Hi/panica maxima e fufco cinerafcens, alis punttis nigris macu~ 
latis. Ratj Hift. Infect. p.62. precedenti congener Africana, cum firits in {cap- 
pulis. Ej. ib. Locufla maxima cinereo purpurea maculis brunts. Hift. Nat. 
‘fam. 1 Vol. p. 29. 
This Locuft was two Inches and a half long, it had two three quar- 
ters of an Inch long Axtenae, a large Purple and brown Head, fix Legs, 
the hindermoft Pair more than twice as long as the others, being about 
two Inches in Length, the Wings membranaceous, of an afh-purple Co- 
lour, wich brown Spots, pretty frequently on them. 
It came on Board the Affiftance-Frigate, about three hundred Leagues 
to the windward of Barbados, and {ell on the Fore caftle among the 
Sailors. More concerning this Locuft may be feen, p. 29.0f the firft Volume 
of this Hiftory. 
Sir Yohn Narborough told me he had frequently met with the like 
Locufts at great Diftances from Land in feveral Voyages. 
About five Years before I was in famaica, there came a prodigious 
Number of thefe Locufts thither, they came from the Haft and went 
Weltwardly, they flew fome no higher than the Heighth of a Man, 
others very much higher, and went in a Stream; and at the fame 
Time were a great many Crickets very common in thefe Parts. Al- 
tho’ the greateft Part went Welt and did not ftay here, yet feveral 
Stragling Locufts did, and confumed a great many of the Vegetables of 
the Ifland. ‘ 
Beauplan tells us, that in Tartavy thefe Locutts are as big as one’s Finger, 
and three or four Inches long, lay Eggs into the Ground by their 
Tails, are hatch’d in <dprif, when if Rains come, they are deftroy’d, 
they are ready to fy in fix Weeks with the Wind, are fometimes four 
Inches thick on the Ground, and that at Night the Swine feed on 
them. 
VII. Locufta cinereo purpurea major, waculis brunis vel fufcis, 
The common Afb-colour'd Locuft. 
This is about two Inches long, the Head has two Antenna half an 
Inch long, the Eyes are oval ; it hath fix Legs, taking their Origin from 
the Thorax, the hindermolt the longeft, by more than two Parts, 
the Abdomen is three quarters of an Inch long, confilting of eight 
_ Se€tions or Avnuli;the two Wings are membranaceous, the Whole is of 
a light reddifh brown, fpotted with blackor yellow, the Wings are more 
than an Inch long, and reach one third Part of an Inch beyond the 4é- 
domen. : 
It is toocommon in all Savannas of this Ifland and the Carzbes, and 
feems to differ little from the Precedent. 
VILL. Locufla maxima viridis, alis latiffimis. Tab. 236. Fig. 1,2. Tu- 
‘curubt Brafilienfibus, Marcer. p. 246. An Sauterelles vertes. du Tertre. 
Pe 347s. 
This trom the Head to the End of the Abdomen was not over an 
Inch long, buc to the End of the Wings two Inches and a half, the 
Head was very fmall, with two black Eyes; the Legs were fix, 
proceeding from the Tvorax, thofe laft two Inches and a halt long, the 
Eee Wings 
