WHISTLE IN'SECT. 
smooth, the middle ones have some small 
points ; the feet, or outer joints, are divided 
into roundish fiat parts, which are pliable ; 
and each foot has two small claws at it's end. 
The body is black on it's upper side, spotted 
with orange colour ; the under side is orange 
colour : the legs, also, are orange colour, but 
with som.e black about their joints* The 
horns are brown.'* 
Were we as anxious to increase names of 
the same objedls in natural history, as we are 
sincerely desirous to see them diminished, we 
might, from it's description in Edwards's own 
words, have given it the new appellation of 
the Locust Beetle. 
The propriety of this idea is particularly 
obvious, on beholding a side view of the in- 
secSl: ; when, from the diredllon of the horns, 
as well as the form of the head, added to the 
elevation of the joints of the hind legs in the 
adion of walking, it lias prckligiously the ge- 
neral appearance of the locust tribes. It is, 
jiotwithstanding, we apprehend, to be consi- 
dered as of the beetle race. 
