INSECTS. 
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placed horizontally on the body, which is foliaceous, depressed, 
and elongated, narrow before and wide behind ; head uncovered; 
abdomen very large, oval, greatly depressed, and membranaceous ; 
thighs foliaceous and large, covering the legs and tarsi when 
these parts are folded up. 
Phyllium siccifolia .— The Dried Leaf Phyllium. 
Plate XCIX. fig. 6. 
Body greatly depressed, of a pale-green or reddish-yellow 
colour. Inhabits India. 
Section II. 
Elytra and wings (with the exception of those of the first 
tribe) sloped like a roof; the posterior feet and thighs very 
large, and formed for leaping. 
TRIBE V.-GRYLLIDES. 
With horizontal elytra and wings; filiform or setaceous an¬ 
tennae; tarsi having three joints. 
Gerais GRYLLO-TALPA. — Latreille. 
Generic Character. —Tarsi and legs of both anterior feet 
broad, depressed, and indented like hands, calculated for dig¬ 
ging; other tarsi of ordinary shape, terminated by hooks; an¬ 
tennae slender at the tips, elongated and composed of many arti¬ 
culations. 
v Grijllo-Talpa vulgaris. — The P.Iole Cricket. 
Plate XCIX. fig. 8. 
Dusky-brown; tail provided with two horny tail-shaped ex¬ 
crescences ; breast black, and covered with hairs. Inhabits 
Britain. 
TRIBE VI.-LOCUST A RliE. 
The wings and elytra are sloped like a roof; tarsi four-jointed ; 
with setaceous antennas. 
Genus L O C US T A. — Latreille. 
Generic Character. — With four jointed tarsi; the antennae 
long and. setaceous, having many indistinct joints ; palpi four, 
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