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TAB. LXV. 
ACHETA campestris. 
Field Cricket. 
Class 5. Insecta. Order 2. Orthoptera, 
Gen. Char. Feelers long, last joint subclavate, 
rounded at the end. Antenna; setaceous. Ovi- 
duct with valves, separate, subcapitate, cleft at 
the end. Posterior thighs very large. 
Spec. Char. Wings shorter than the elytra. Head 
immensely large. Body black. Sides and base 
of the elytra pale. Posterior thighs red under- 
neath. 
Syn. Fab. Ent. Syst. Em. ii. 31. 11 . Panz. Faun. 
Germ . Init. n. 88. t. 8. 6 1. 9. ? . 
Gryllus campestris. Linn. Syst. Nat. 69 5. 13. 
Bingley, Anim. Biogr. 1 ed. iii. 252. Mouffet. 1 34. 
Raii Hist. Ins. 63. &c. 
Length of the body without the oviduct 10 lines. 
For a very entertaining account of the manners of this in- 
sect we refer our readers to the Rev. G. White’s Natural 
History of Selhorne, or to Animal Biography as quoted 
above. We have not many particulars to add to its history 
from our own stores. The specimens from which our 
drawings were made (in the collection of the Rev. W. Kir- 
