AUGUST. 305 



custae, it appears that the whole of the fore- 

 going quotation will more strictly apply to the 

 latter than to the former; but if it can be 

 clearly shown, on equal authority with these 

 Gems, that the Grecian Tettix is the Cicada., 

 or Tettigonia, of modern entomologists, it will 

 follow that the Greeks were in the habit of 

 including both families under the same appel- 

 lation. See plate 96, of Engravings of Gems 

 from the Florentine Gallery, or a copy in the 

 Continued Appendix to Calmet's Dictionary of 

 the Bible, page 77- 



