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PLATE CCCCIX. 



GRYLLUS DOMESTICUS. 



HOUSE CRICKET. 

 IIEM1PTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Head inflated, armed with jaws : feelers filiform : anteunse ufualfy 

 fetaceous, or filiform : wings four, deflected, convolute, the lower 

 ones plaited : pofterior legs formed for leaping : claws double. 



** SeBion Acheta. Antennas fetaceous : feelers unequal ; thorax 

 rounded : tail with two briftles. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYKOXYMS. 

 Wipgs tailed, and longer than the wing-cafes : body glaucous. 



Gryllus Domesticus : alls caiidatjs elytro longioribus, pedibus 

 fimplicibus, corpore glauco. Linn. Fn. Suec, 

 868. — Scop.Ent. Cam. 318. 



Acheta Domeftica : Fabr. Ent. St/ ft, T. 2. p. 29. n. 3, 



Gryllus Dqmesticus : Mouffet. Inf. p. 135, 



Grylli Mouffeti. Jonji. Inf. 12. 



\jz Grillon, Geoffr. T. I. p, 389, n. 2, 



G a Fe* 



