176 NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



Description The male only vocal. 



feelers, or horns, are very long, tapering off to a 

 point; and the eyes are like two black specks, a 

 little prominent. The corselet is elevated, nar- 

 row, armed above and below, by two serrated 

 spines. The back is armed with a strong buck- 

 ler, to which the muscles of the legs are firmly 

 bound, and round these muscles are seen the ves- 

 sels by which the animal breathes, as white as 

 snow. The last pair of legs are much longer 

 and stronger than the first two pair, fortified by 

 thick muscles, and very well formed for leaping. 

 It has four wings; the anterior ones springing 

 from the second pair of legs, the posterior from 

 the third pair. The hinder wings are much 

 finer, and more expansive, than the foremost, 

 and are the principal instruments of its flight. 

 The belly is considerably large, composed of 

 eight rings, and terminated by a forky tail, co- 

 vered with down, like the tail of a rat. See fig. 

 9- in the plate of insects. When examined in- 

 ternally, besides the gullet, we discover a small 

 stomach; and behind that a very large one, 

 wrinkled and furrowed within side; lower down 

 there is still a third; so that it is not without 

 reason, that all the animals of this order are said 

 to chew the cud, as they so much resemble ru- 

 minant animals in their internal conformation. 



Soon after the grasshopper assumes its wings, 

 it fills the meadow with its note; which, like that 

 among birds, is a call to courtship. The male 

 only of this tribe is vocal: and upon examining 



