2s6 Phyfical and Mifcellmeous 



The Butterfly The ΠΊοίΙ cuHous Spccies of the Butterfly Kind, is near four 

 IvLgf."^^'' Inches from one Tip of the Wing to the other, being all over 

 very beautifully ftreaked with murrey and yellow. Yet the 

 Edges of the lower Wings are to be excepted, which being 

 indented and ending in a narrow Strip or Lappet of an Inch 

 long, are very elegantly bordered with yellow. Near the 

 Tail there is a Spot of a Carnation Colour. 

 The hroad Thc rarcft Species of the LibelL• oxy4dderholis, is one of three 

 iferboir^'^' Inchcs aud a half long, broad tailed, of a rufty Colour, with 

 bright fpotted Wings. There is another of the fame Size , 

 but of a more cylindrical Body, differing little in Colour from 

 the common Locuft. 

 The Unicom The Icaft frequent of the Beetle Kind, is a Species with one 

 Beetle. Hom , of the Colour and Size of a Chefnut. The Head is 

 notched round or indented, and the Feet are broad like thofe 

 of the Gryllo-Talpas. The leiTer Naficornes are every where 

 met with, as alfo a Diverfity οϊ Elaflic Beetles. 

 The Mantes. To that Species of Locufts, which are called Mantes by the 

 Naiuralifts, I am to add one of three Inches long, of a brown 

 Colour, with the Fore Legs armed with itrong horny Claws. 

 There is another of the fame Size of the cucuUated Kind, which 

 hath the upper Wings ftreaked with a light green, and the 

 membranaceous ones finely chequered with flefli, brown and 

 fcarlet Colours : befides a third Species of two Inches long, 

 with elegant green Wings. But the chief Charaoterifticks of 

 the latter, are two ^ntenuie^ which projee:, like a couple of 

 Feathers, from the Forehead. 

 The Locufts. I never obferved the Mantes to be gregarious ; but the Lo- 

 cufts properly fo called, which are fo frequently mentioned, 

 by facred as well as prophane Writers , are fometimes fo be- 

 yond Expreflion. Thofe which I faw Ann. 1714. and 1715-. 

 were much bigger than our common Grafshoppers, having brown 

 r^iirjfr/i^i-lpotted Wings, with Legs and Bodies of a bright yellow. Their 

 pearancs. £j.^. Appearance was towards the latter End of Mar do ^ the 

 Wind having been for fome time foutherly ; and in the Mid- 

 dle οϊ April their Numbers were fo vaftly increafed, that in 

 the Heat of the Day, they formed themfelves into large Bo- 

 dies, appeared like a Succeflion of Clouds , and darkened the 

 Thehyingavd^mi. About the Middle oi May y when their Ovaries were 

 Siilgxf turgid, each ofThefe Bodies began gradually to diilippear, re- 



tiring 



