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TAB. LXV. 



ACHETA campestris. 

 Field Cricket. 



Class 5. Insecta. Order 2. Orthoptera. 



Gen. Char. Feelers long, last joint subclavate, 

 rounded at the end. Antennce setaceous. Ovi- 

 duct with valves, separate, subcapitate, cleft at 

 the end. Posterior thighs very large. 



Spec. Char. Wings shorter than the elytra. Head 

 immensely large. Body black. Sides and base 

 of the elytra pale. Posterior thighs red under- 

 neath. 



Syn. Fab, Ent. Syst. Em. ii. 31. 11. Panz, Faun, 

 Germ. Init. n. 88. t. 8. c? ^. 9. ? . 

 Gryllus campestris. Linn. Syst. Nat. 695. 13. 

 Bingley, Anim. Biogr. 1 ed, iii. 252. Mouffet. 1 34. 

 Raii Hist. Ins. 63. &c. 



Length of the body without the oviduct 10 lines. 



1^ OR a very entertaining account of the manners of this in- 

 sect we refer our readers to the Rev. G. White's Natural 

 History of Selhorne, or to Animal Biography as quoted 

 above. We have not many particulars to add to its history 

 from our own stores. The specimens from which our 

 drawings were made (i,n the collection of the Rev. W. Kir- 



