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terminated with a long hair. All these hairs are of a light brown colour, seem 

 to be stiff, but their ends are quite soft like papillae, and from thence thicker. 

 The wings are shorter than the abdomen; the upper ones folded. The legs are 

 black, except the thighs, which are yellow; at their joints there are short hair- 

 like rays, whose ends are likewise short and thickened. 



II. Rhombea cicada thorace compresso membranaceo foliaceo subrhombeo pos- 

 ticolatiore,* fig. Q, pi. 1. The thorax is like a leaf that is raised perpendicularly 

 from the body: it is 3 times as broad as the body, but the same length. This leaf 

 is very near of a rhomboid figure, a little broader, or rather higher over the back ; 

 it is membranaceous, probably brownish, (when alive) half pellucid, with two 

 spots that are more pellucid, or transparent; the larger one is very near the 

 middle, but the smaller lower; the margins are waved, especially towards the 

 hind angle ; over the forepart of the body the leaf is double. 



The abdomen is a little longer projected backwards than the leaf of the thorax. 

 The insect had not yet got its coleoptera and wings. The hind thighs, that are 

 thicker, have on the upper side an additional narrow membrane added to them. 

 The head and maxillae are very like those of the grylluses, but there is such an 

 affinity between this and the cicada foliata, Linn. Syst. Nat. 435 — 6, that he 

 should think it the same species, if the thorax of this was not broader behind 

 towards the end. The antennae are broken off; else from their length one might 

 learn to what genus the tribe Linnaeus calls cicadae foliaceae (Syst. Nat. p. 435) 

 should be referred; for he doubts whether Linnaeus ever had seen perfect speci- 

 mens of them. 



f^ll. Of an /American Armadilla.-^ By William Watson, M. D., F. R. S. p. 57. 



This animal was alive, in the possession of Lord Southwell. It is called by 

 Linnaeus, in his Syst. Nat., Dasypus cingulis novem, palmis tetradactylis, pTan- 

 tis pentadactylis. It is called by naturalists the American armadilla, was brought 

 to England from the country near what is usually called the Mosquito-shore, 

 on the American continent. Its weight was 7 lb. avoirdupois, and its size that 

 of a common cat. It was a male, and had improved greatly both in appearance 

 and colour, since it had been brought to this country. It was fed with raw beef 

 and milk ; but it refused our grain and fruits. In its own country, according to 

 the accounts of those who treat of it, it burrows in the ground. 



F'lII. Of the Quantity of Rain fallen at Mount's Bay in Cornwall, and of the 

 Weather in that Place. By the Rev. Wm. Borlase, M. A., F. R. S. p. 5Q. 



At Carlisle Mr. B. was informed there fell 64 inches of rain in the months of 



* This is the Cicada rhombea of Linnaeus, 

 f Thi.s species is the Dait/pus novemcinctus of Linnaeus. 

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