PLATE CXXII. 



LocuSTA Camellifolia : thorace deflexo, elytris concavis, 

 apice rotundatis, ala longioribus. Fabr. Ent, 

 SysU t. 2. p. 35. — Spec. Ins* t, 1. p. 256. 

 Mant- Ins. 1 . p. 232. n, 4. 



Gryllus Camillifolius : Gmel. Linn. 2064. p. 96. 



Locusta siccifolia elytris maximis ovatis erectis foliaformibus. 



Degeer. Ins, 3. 438. 2. tab. 37. /. 5. 



Although we cannot introduce this singular species of the 

 Locust tribe as an insect hitherto unnoticed, we may venture to 

 observe, that it is one of those which is very little known, and of 

 which the history has heretofore remained in much obscurity. It 

 appears to have been first produced to the attention of the naturalist 

 in the writings of Degeer, under the name of Locusta siccifolia ; 

 Fabricius afterwards published a description of the insect under 

 the name of Locusta Camellifolia, and after him Professor Gmelin 

 inserted it in his edition of Systema Naturas, adopting the character 

 given by Fabricius, but under the appellation of Gryllus (locusta) 

 Camillifolius. 



Some time ago the Rev. Lansdown Guilding, A. B. F. L. S. 

 and now resident at St. Vincent's, in the West Indies, presented a 

 memoir, accompanied with a drawing of the two sexes of this 

 remarkable locust, to the Linnaean Society ; this paper was read on 

 the 18th of March, and subsequently in the last meeting of 



