60 PLA © met CXXX: 
This Infe& is larger than the great green Grafshopper, (Gryllus 
werrucivorus) or any other fpecies of the genus we have in this 
country ; unlefs we notice the Gryllus Magratorius, which is well 
known for its depredations in many parts of the world, but is rarely 
met with in England. 
The prefent fpecies is perhaps not uncommon in many places, 
but it is very difficult to difcover its hiding-places in the day-time ; 
its chirp is fometimes heard in acalm Summer’s evening, about 
fun-fet, iffuing from the bufhes where it is concealed; and from 
which it feldom ventures tiJ] night; it continues its chirping at ins 
tervals till morning. 
The female feems to prefer a warm, and rather moift fituation, to 
depofit her eggs in, and this is commonly the fide of a bank that is 
expofed to the fun ; but is well covered with grafs and other herbage 
to keep it moift. She is furnifhed with a fharp double edged fheath, 
like a fword, with which fhe opens the ground in a perpendicular 
direction ; firft fcooping out a convenient cylindrical aperture, and 
then widening the lower part into a fpacious apartment for the re- 
ception of the eggs. See Fig. I. 
~ When the Infect burfts from the egg it is very minute, and with- 
out Wings ; in this {tate it nips the tender fhoots of grafs, &c. It 
foon increafes in fize and aflumes the pupa form; in which ftate 
though the Wings are not perfect, their rudiments appear next the 
Thorax: it continues in this ftate till it has nearly acquired its full 
fize before the Wings burft open from the protuberances. 
Our fpecimens were taken in Batterfea Meadows ; in the egg {tate 
early in April; winged ftate in June, 
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