INSECTS. HEMIPTERA. 60. Gryllus. 54I 



Cigantea. Brownifh ; neck, thorax and thighs ferrate. 



Inhabits Zta/y. Drury Inf. 2. p. 89. tab. 50; large. 



Jngufta. Greenifh; tail forked: antenna? filiform, as long as the 

 body. 

 Inhabits Antigua. Drury Inf. I. tab. KO.f<?. 3. 



Sibirha. Body varied with yellow and brown : wings hyaline with 

 reddifh nerves. 

 Inhabits Siberia. Lepech. It. 1. tab. ij. fg. 8. 

 Is probably only a variety of M.pufilla. 



Brachypte- Cinereous ; thorax toothed: wings half as lon^ as the 

 **• body. 



Inhabits the deferts of Siberia, Fall. It. 2. Jpp. n. 81. 



Pcnnicornis Crown with a conic fpine: antennse feathered, linear: 

 hind-thighs terminating in a lobe. 

 Inhabits the deferts bordering on the Cafpian Sea ; refemblcs 

 in fhape and colour Mantis gongy lodes. Pall. It. 2. Jpp. n. 81. 



60. GRYLLUS. Head infleaed, armed 

 with jaws : feelers filiform : antenna? 

 fetaceous or filiform : wings 4, defleft- 

 . ed, convolute ;/ the lower ones plaited : 

 hind-legs formed for leaping : claws 

 double on all the feet. 



The Infects of this family feed on plants and herbs, except thofe 

 of the di virion Iruxalis, which prey on other infects : the far* 

 vae and pupa; refemble the perfect infects, refide chiefly under 

 ground, and are 6-footed voracious and aclive ; they were the 

 only animals of this Oafs which Mofes permitted the Ifraelites 

 to eat, and are, at prefect, ufed as an article of focd by the 

 natives of Africa and India. 



A,« Antenna enftform ; head conic, longer than the thcrax. . 

 Truxalis. 



Head conic : body green. 



Inhabits Africa. Seba. Muf. /{..tab. 96. f%. 41. 

 ' Mouth placed at the bafe of the head : antennae at the tip : tarings 

 fometimes hyaline. 



" Conic as. 



