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INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 60. Gryllus. 



*&ryllotal- Wings terminating in (lender tails longer than the abdo- 

 t a " men : fore-feet palmate. Mole Cricket. 



Donovan s Eng. Inf. v. tab. 147. Schaeff. Icon. t. 37./*. *• 

 Inhabits Gardens and cultivated places of Europe and America, 

 where it burrows below the furface of the ground, and is very 

 deftruclive, eating and deftroying the roots of plants. 

 Body dark chefnut-brown, hairy : icing-cafes fhorter than the bo- 

 dy, veined : antenna fhorter than the body. 



Monstrofus. Wing-eafes and wings tailed convolute. 



Inhabits India. Drury Inf. 2. tab. 42. fig. I. 

 Antennae longer than the body : fiianks ipinous : feet dilated io- 

 bare. 



*Do?nesti- Wings tailed, longer than the wing-caies : body glaucous. 

 (us * Houfe-cricket. 



Seb. Muf. 4. tab. 6$.fg. 24. Degecr. 3. tab, 2\.fig. I . 



An inhabitant of almoil every houfc, about ovens and kitchen 

 chimneys: wanders about during the whole night, keeping a 

 continual chirping, efpecially before rain : is laid to forfake 

 houfes infeited with the cock-roach, and is deitroyed by pills 

 of Arienic aryi the frefh root of the Daucus mixed with flour, 

 or the root of the Nymphxa boiled in milk. 



AJJimilis. Wings tailed, longer thah the wing-cafes : abdomen with 

 2 ftyles, cleft at the tip. 



Inhabits jfamaciai flze of the laft. 



Antennae pale : thorax and head black with a pale edge: iuing- 

 cafes rounded, brown: abdomen black: Jlyles or fpinous project- 

 ions filiform, as long as the abdomen : legs brown. 



Reticulatus, £i ac k . w ing-cafes reticulate with rufous : antennas an- 

 nulate with white. 



Inhabits Africa. In the Mufeum of Sr. Jos. Banks. 



Antennae twice as long as the body, black with 7 white rings : 

 ^37/yellowifh : crown black : thorax black with a yellow fpot 

 in the middle : iving-cajes fhort obtufe : abdomen black : ftyles 

 2 villous, with an afcending fpine. 



Brafihenfs. Wings tailed longer than the wing- cafes: body brown paler 

 on the back : tail afcending, as long as the body. 

 Inhabits Brajil. 



Head brown : crown paler : thorax brownifh at the fide?, pale 

 above : wing-cafes rounded with a lateral black fpot : abde- 

 //tftfwith a yellowifh projection, brown at the end. 



Orient alls, 



