GRYLLUS. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae filiform, with from twenty to twenty- 

 five joints; hemelytra and wrings deflected, the 

 latter large, much folded ; posterior feet formed 

 for leaping, hardly longer than the body; tarsi 

 three-jointed ; oviduct not exserted ; stemmata 

 unequidistant. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



Insects of this genus are well known to every 

 person in this country by the familiar and cha- 

 racteristic name of "grasshoppers." They are 

 in some seasons very abundant, and become an 

 inconvenience to the farmer, by devouring his 

 grasses and other vegetable productions. But 

 their increase here is always limited, so that, 

 even when most numerous, a great portion of 

 the crop is saved. There are countries, however, 

 where this is not the case, and we have only to 

 inform the reader, that the migratory locust is 

 one of the members of this genus, to apprize him 



PLATE XXXIV. 



