THE 



MIGRATORY, 



O R, 



WANDERING LOCUST. 



Generic Character. 



Head inflected, armed with jaws, and furnimed 



with palpi or feelers* 

 Antenna either fetaceous, or filiform. 

 Wings four, deflected, convolute ; the inferior 1 



ones plaited. 

 Hind-Feet formed for leaping. Claim on all the 



feet double. 



Specific Character. 



GRYLLUS with fubcarinated thorax with a 

 fingle fegment, obtufe head, and blackilh 

 or blueifh jaws. 



Of all the infects which are capable of adding to the 

 Calamities of mankind by devouring the products of the 

 earth, loeufts feem to'poiTefs the mod: formidable pow- 

 res of destruction. Legions of thefe voracious crea^ 

 tures are from time to time produced in various parts of 

 Africa and the Eaftern World, where the havock they 

 commit is almoft incredible. They carry defoJatioa 



with 



