THE 



BAY-LEAVED LOCUST. 



Generic Character. 



Head inflected, armed with jaws, and furnifhed 



with palpi or feelers. 

 Antenna either fetaceous or filiform. 

 Wings four, deflected, convolute ; the inferior 



ones plaited. 



Hind-feet formed for leaping. Claws on all the 

 feet double. 



Specific Character, &c. 



LOCUST with fmooth and fomewhat tetragonal 

 thorax, and wings (commonly) rather longer 

 \ than the wing-fheaths. 



THE BAY-LEAVED LOCUST. 



This infect lias obtained its name from the ftrong 

 general refemblancc which the upper or outer wings 

 bear to the leaves of the Bay tree. Several fpecies in 

 the genera of Gryllus and Mantis are highly remark- 

 able for this leaf-like appearance, which feems in- 

 tended in fome meafure as a fecurity to the animals 



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