THE 



CITRON-LEAVED LOCUST, 



Generic Character. 



Head inflected, armed with jaws, and furnimed 

 • with palpi or feelers. 

 Antenna either fetaceous or filiform. 

 Wings four, deflex, convolute : the inferior ones 

 plaited. 



Feet hinder formed for leaping : Claws on all the 

 feet double. 



Specific Character. 



LOCUST with the thorax of a fomewhat qua- 

 drangular form and crenated on the edges, 

 with very large green leaf-like exterior wings. 



Of all that tribe of the genus Gryllus diftinguiftied 

 by the leaf-like appearance of the elytra or exterior 

 wings, this feems to be the largeft fpecies. It alfo 

 yields to none in the perfect, and ftriking refemblance 

 to leaves which its wings exhibit. It is a native of 

 various parts of India. 



