232 TRAVELS IN UPPER 



I found several individuals of the same species, 

 the colours of which were less brilliant, with 

 some differences in the shades. These wasps, 

 very common in the country, appear also in the 

 cities. Several of them entered into my chamber 

 at Rossetta. 



At this season you frequently meet, besides, a 

 species of hopping insects, known by the name of 

 grillon, grillus (cricket). I believe it has not been 

 described, or designed, and I am going to depict 

 it. This cricket is fourteen lines long, and its 

 greatest breadth is a little more than three lines ; 

 the antennae are five lines, the sheaths thirteen ; 

 they extend beyond the body three lines. 



The distribution of the colours is elegant : the 

 antennae are red, the crown of the head is marked, 

 lengthwise, by a blackish line, bordered with yel- 

 low, and which extends upon the corselet enlarg- 

 ing itself. The large eyes are striped lengthwise 

 with black and white ; the little smooth eye in the 

 middle of the head is of an orange colour : you 

 might take the others for little beads of the most 

 brilliant gold ; the rest of the head is of a greenish 

 gray ; the rest of the corselet, and the under part 

 of the belly, are of gray shaded with yellow ; the 

 ppper part of the belly is greenish. 



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