Plate 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



Plate 



Order Hemiptera. 

 J 50. Lettered Entomology, Order Hemiptera, Plate I. 

 Fig. I . Blatta orientalis 



Genus Mantis. 



Fig. 2. Mantis bifpinofa 



3. Mantis precaria 



4. Mantis gongyloides 



5. Mantis Jhumaria 



Genus Gryllus. 

 J5J. Lettered Entomology, Order Hemiptera, Plate H. 



Fig. I. Gryllus Dux 



2. Gryllus nafutus 



3. Gryllus vtriiiyfimus minor 



4. Gryllus fubulata 



5. Gryllus Gryllo-talpa 



6. Larva of Gryllus 



7. Pupa of Gryllus morbillofus 



Genus Fulgora. 



152. Lettered Entomology, Order Hemiptera, Plate IH. 



Fig. I. Fulgora Lanternaria, in a refting pofition 



with expanded wings 

 Fulgora candelaria 

 Cicada Tibicien, (Tettigonia, Fabr.) 

 Cicada husmatodes 

 Cicada flridula 

 Cicada phalnnoides 

 Cicada fanguinolcnta 

 Cicada taurus 

 Cicada fpinofa 



I. 

 2. 



3- 



4- 



5- 



6. 



7- 

 8. 



9- 



10. 



Genus Notonecta. 



152. Fig. II. NotoneSa glauca 



Genus Nepa. 



153. Lettered Entomology, Order Hemiptera, Plate IV. 



Fig. I. Nepa grandis 



Genus Cimex. 



Fig. 2 . Cimex leHularius 

 3. Cimex aurantiiu 



Genus Aphis. 



Fig. 4. Aphis perjicie 



5. Aphis falicis 



6. Aphis gallarum 



Genus Cherms?. 

 Fig. 7. Chermes alni 

 8. Chermes buxi 



Genus Coccus. 



Fig. 9. Coccus Fol. Quercus 



1 0. Coccus perjtcx 



1 1 . Coccus hefperidum 



12. Coccus cataphra3us 



Genus Thrips. 



Fig. 13. Thrips phyfapus 

 14. Thrips juniperina 



and thefe, it muft be allowed, were not chofen altogether 

 with that due attention to accuracy which the intricacy of 

 this branch of Natural Hiftory demanded. Thefe infefts 

 were copied, we underlland, from fpecimens in the very 

 valuable cabinet of Mr. Francillon ; but owing to the dif- 

 pcrfion of that coUeftion by public fale, the means of com- 

 parifon has palTed away, and the death of the artift then 

 employed, as well as of the zealous proprietor of that col- 

 leftion, has oppofed a period to enquiry further. The far 

 greater and more coftly portion of the Francillonian Ca- 

 binet is indeed prefervcd, being incorporated in the princely 

 cabinet of Alexander M'^Leay, Efq., a cabinet to which 

 true fcience is never refufed an eafy accefs ; but the infefts 

 in qucftion having been removed from their refpeftive fitu- 

 ations, in Mr. Francillon's drawers, they can be no longer 

 recognized as the fpecimens from which tlie figures in this 

 plate are taken ; and this, in fome few inftances at leaft, it 

 mull be confefTed, is requifite to enable us to fpeak of them 

 with certainty. We may obferve, moreover, that very few 

 names accompany the articles reprefented in this Plate of 

 Mr. Edwards ; and of thofe few fome are certainly faulty. 

 Hifpa is doubtful (a true Hifpa has been fmce given in 

 Plate 141. fig. 8.). Bruchus h erroneous, and appears to 



be, with the exception of the antenna, Attelabus Corylj ; 

 (atrue Bruchus is inferted by us in Plate 141. fig. 9.) ; and 

 his infeft named Attelabus, has much the appearance of 

 Mylabris, except in having peftinated inftead of monili- 

 form antennae : neverthelefs this may be a Clerus, and al- 

 lied to Apiarus. (See Plate 148. fig. 9.) Lampyris is 

 indifferent ; Cantharis unintelligible. With thefe, and fome 

 few other exceptions, the Plate (hould be preferved, as it 

 contains other infefts of intereft, the repetition of whofe 

 figures has been purpofely avoided in feledting the materials 

 for the reft of the Plates of Coleoptera. 



We believe Curculio, No. i. to be Curculio bifpinofus ; 

 No. 3. to be Curculio Imperialis, the Brafilian or Dia- 

 mond Beetle ; No. 4. Curculio vittata, of Jamaica ; Ceram- 

 byx, No. 3., C. Mofchatus ; No. 4. Cerambyx marginatus; 

 >Iecydali3, No. 2., N. ca^rulea ; Lampyris, fig. I., L. vul- 

 garis, male (having wings) ; No. 2. the fcniale (being 

 apterous, or without wings) ; Elater, No. i., E. ocellatus, 

 Weft Indies ; No. 2. is uncertain ; but is, no doubt, an 

 Elater, placed on its back, to ftiew the fituation of the 

 pointed fternum in that genus, by ftriking which upon the 

 breaft, the infe£l is enabled to fpring up with inftantaneous 

 velocity when laid down in that pofition. 



