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fome ftrong fpines ; but the tibiae, or fecond joints, are armed with 

 far larger and ftronger ones. The upper and middle pair of legs 

 aiv of a nearly fimilar flru£ture in proportion, but much lefs 

 ftrongly fpined. The colour of all the legs is green, tinged with 

 brown; the fpines blackiih. The general colour of the thorax, 

 abdomen and head is now brown, but might probably have been 

 of a greenilh caft in the living animal. The wings are fcarcely 

 larger than the elytra or wing-fheaths, andfeem originally to have 

 been reddifli, a tinge of that colour ftill pervading fome parts of 

 the wings ; the tips are green. Thefe wings are very ftrongly 

 veined with brown fibres. The wing-cafes are of a ftrong opake 

 green, and were doubtlefs more vivid in the living infe&. They 

 have a great refemblance to a pair of leaves. The mouth has four 

 palpi, which are rather long; and under the mouth are fituated two 

 leaf-fhaped organs, perhaps belonging to the aflion of that part. 

 The antenna are wanting, the firft joints alone remaining. The 

 abdomen is terminated by a kind of boat-fhaped organ, the keel of 

 which pofleffes a confiderable fpace beneath the abdomen, fo that 

 fewer fegments appear on that part than above. The concavity of 

 this organ is covered above by a terminal fcale and bifid procefs, 

 conflicting the tip of the abdomen on the upper part. On raifing 

 this valve, "an ovum, nearly of the fize of a pea, but of a more length- 

 ened form, was diicovered lying in the cavity beneath ; and on in- 

 specting farther into the cavity of the abdomen, a great many more 

 ova exa&ly fimilar, were found, to the number of five or fix-and- 

 twenty-fome Rill remaining in the upper part. Thefe eggs are of 

 a flicrhtly oblong (hape, but flattened at one end: they are or a 

 brown colour, and marked all over with numerous imprefled points; 

 and have on one fide a mark or double-waved line, fo difpofed as to 

 reprefent a kind of crofs, as if curved on the iurface : the flattened 

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