44 MEMOIR OF 



The fruit introduced into this plate is the shaddock 

 (Citrus decumana), the largest and one of the finest 

 of the citrine tribe. 



Passing over numerous plates devoted to the 

 illustration of many fine lepidopterous species, some 

 of them of considerable merit, and a few (such as 

 Plate XLII.) unworthy of commendation, we shall 

 extract Mr. Guilding's notice of plate XLIX., which 

 affords an excellent delineation of both sexes of the 

 great lantern-fly. " The subterraneous larva and 

 the smaller expanded figure belong to a true cicada, 

 but not, I think, the Tettigonia tibicen, Fair. The 

 larger figures well represent the noble Fulgora lan- 

 ternaria, one of the most singular of all insects, and 

 a precious addition to any cabinet. The creature 

 at the bottom is fictitious. The hollow lantern- 

 shaped head of the Fulgora has been glued on a 

 Tettigonia, and probably sold to our good-tempered 

 author by some cunning negro. From her words, 

 * persuasum mihi ab Indis est,' she had evidently 

 no better authority for presenting us with this 

 strange figure. The sounds of the cicada, so like 

 those of the razor-grinder s wheel, are not produced 

 by the proboscis, but by the wonderful and complex 

 tympanum, which occupies half the abdomen of the 

 clamorous and impatient male. From the peculiar 

 shrillness of the confused notes drawn from the 

 quickly agitated organ, the creature is heard not 

 only at a great distance, but is superior in attracting 

 the attention to any thing I know. Often, as the 



