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GRILLUS i. Maximus viridis, aculeo latiori /tf/-7rru«i T „ 



° catQ J (The large green Locuft. 



This is the largeft of all the winged infects of Jamaica : it is of a beautiful 

 sreen colour, and fupported by long thorny legs, adorned with fharp griping nails. 



GRILLUS 2. Medius fufcus, capite crafjiori. The Cricket. 



GRILLUS 3 



Minor aculeo refio 

 tennis longijjimi: 



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an- 



The fmall Wood- 



Cricket 



where 



All thefe fpecies are frequent in the woods and inland parts of Jamaica, 

 they keep a loud disagreeable noife for the greateft part of the night ; but they hide 

 themfelves by day, and pafs the hours of light in perfect tranquillity. 



ARTICLE 



II. 





Of the Hemipterae, or fitch as have their elitra? or outward wings, partly thin and 



membranous and partly Jliff and opake. 



Tho' this clafs takes its denomination from the form of the wings, which is pe- 

 culiar to many of them, they are chiefly diftinguifhed by the make and dif- 

 pofition of the probofcis or oral duel, which is long, ilender, and ftraight, in 

 moft of the fpecies, and generally bent back under the breaft. 



CICADA i. 



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Mapr nigra, cruribm hlrfuth , elitrh\ The , Bkck ^^ 



memuranaceis nervofts. 



This infect is as large as any of our wild bees in Europe, but of a longer make 



The head is very large in proportion to the body, and the wings nervous and trans- 

 parent. 



CIA4EX i. Tcetidus lefluarius, alis deflitutus. 



The Chink or Bu2. 



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Thefe infecls are very common in Jamaica -, and the people to avoid them, as 

 much as poflible, are not only obliged to make ufe of the hardeft and fmootheft 

 timbers in their bedfteads, as the leafr. capable of harbouring them ; but walh 

 them frequently with boiling water, to deftroy fuch as may chance to fculk in any 

 of the fmaller crevices of the frame. 



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CIMEX 2. 



Siheftris alata, ex 



albo 



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iridisy fcutd dorfi 7 The fmall green 



utrinque mucronatd. Tab. 43. f . 14, 



Wood-Chink. 







This little infect is frequent in the woods of Jamaica ; it is pretty broad in pro- 

 portion to its length, efpecially about the fhoulders j but of a thin compreffed 

 make. It is of a pale green colour mixed with very minute black fpecks in every 



part, and feldom exceeds three- eighths of an inch in length. 



ACANTHARIS 1. Fufcus, ventre cbovato Jup 



cochleato, inferne carinato)- The brown Acanthar is 

 acuto. Tab. 44. f. ir. 



Antenna tenttes articulate, longitudine pedum. Caput obhngum tenue, pre 

 bofcide tereti inftruftum. Peftus angujlum obhngum, fuperne binis denti 



culis injlruElum 



Corpus majusculum, obovato-cblongum, fuperne depreffi 



lemterque cochleatum, margine denticulis aliquot acutis injlruBum j inj 



tumidum 



decidute, 



Rojl 



fubulatum reflexum. Alt? membra 



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