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The fruit introduced into this plate is the shaddock 
( Citrus decumana J, the largest and one of the finest 
of the citrine tribe. 
Passing over numerous plates devoted to the 
illustration of manyfine lepidopterous species, some 
of them of considerable merit, and a few (such as 
Plate xLii.) unworthy of commendation, we shall 
extract Mr. Guilding’ s notice of plate xi.ix., which 
affords an excellent delineation of both sexes of the 
great lantem-fly. “ The subterraneous lar\’a and 
the smaller exjiandcd figure belong to a true cicada, 
but not, I think, the Tcttigonia tibicen. Fair. The 
larger figures well represent the noble Fulgora lan- 
temaria, one of the most singular of all insects, and 
a precious addition to any cabinet. The creature 
at the bottom is fictitious. The hollow hmtem- 
shaped head of the Fulgora has been glued on a 
Tettigonia, and probably sold to our good-tempered 
author by some cunning negro. From her words, 
‘ persuasum mihi ab India est,' she had evidently 
no better authority for presenting us with this 
strange figure. The sounds of the cicada, so like 
those of the razor-grinder’s wheel, are not produced 
by the proboscis, but by the wonderful and complex 
tympanum, winch occupies half the abdomen of the 
clamorous and impatient male. From the peculiar 
shrillness of the confused notes drawn firom the 
quickly agitated organ, the creature is heard not 
only at a great distance, but is superior in attracting 
the attention to any thing I know. Often, as the 
