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GryLLus proper, 
Where none of the legs are adapted for digging,’ and where the 
posterior extremity of the female abdomen is provided with a salient 
ovipositor. 
Their antenne are always elongated, smaller near the extremity 
and terminate in a point. The simple eyes are less distinct than in 
the Tridactyli and Gryllo-talpz. 
G. campestris, L.; Rees., Insect., I], Gryll., xiii. Black; base 
of the elytra bellbiwnishs head large; posterior thighs red be- 
neath. It excavates deep holes by the roadside, in dry soils, 
and in situations exposed to the sun, where it remains in ambush, 
watching for the Insects*on which it preys. There also the 
female lays her eggs, which amount to three hundred. This 
species hunts the following one. 
G. domesticus, L.; Res., Insect., II, Gryll., xii. Pale-yellow- 
ish mixed with brown. It frequents those parts of houses in 
which fires are generally kept, and which furnish it with both 
shelter and food, as behind chimneys, ovens, &c. Such are also 
its breeding places. The male produces a shrill and disagree- 
able noise. 
Spain and Barbary produce a very singular Gryllus, the G. 
umbraculatus, L. The forehead of the male is furnished with a 
membranous prolongation, which falls like a veil. 
Messrs. Lefevre and Bibron have brought from Sicily a new 
and large species, described by the former under the name of 
*megacephalus; its stridulous noise is prolonged for half a mi- 
nute and may be heard at the distance of a mile. 
The wings of the G. monstrosus form several spiral convolu- 
tions at the extremity(1). 
Myrmecopuita.—Sphezrium, Charp. 
The Myrmecophile have no wings; and the body is oval. With 
respect to their antennz and the absence of simple eyes, they resem- 
ble the true Grylli. The posterior thighs are extremely large. 
(1) Add Gryllus pellucens, Panz., Faun. Insect. Germ., XXII, 17, male of the 
. Acheta italica, Fab. It lives on flowers;—Acheta sylvestris, Fab.; Coqueb., Wlust. 
Icon., I, i, 2;—2. wmbraculata, Fab.; Coqueb., Ib., II, xxi, 2, and other apres 
figured by De Geer, Drury, Herbst., &c. See Fabricius. 
