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GRTLLUS'. 
Genus IV. — Gf-yllus » 
Fins deffructive genus comprehends all the different 
kinds of locuffs, and is divided by Linn&us into five 
tribes, containing fixty-one different kinds of animals. 
Their general chambers are, a head inflcfted, armed with 
jaws, and furnifhed with palpi; the antennae in fome 
fpccics are fetaceous ; in others filiform : the wings are 
wrapped round the fides of the body; the under one 
folded, and concealed under the elytra. All the feet are 
armed with two nails ; the hind pair formed for leaping. 
Ihe tribe of ache teg, which comprehends in it all the 
different fpecies of crickets, is diftinguifhed by the 
b riffles which fpring from the extremity of the abdomen* 
and by the three articulations of which their tarfi are 
compofed. This family have obtained their Englijh name 
from the continual tirefome noife which they produce. 
The domeftic achette ufually take up their abode in 
ovens, and in the holes of walls around kitchen chim- 
r.eys, where they are attracted by the heat, and are very 
r.oify companions to the country people, who, from fome 
prejudice in their favour, feldom wifli to deftroy them. 
The fieid cuckct remains, during the day, pent up ia 
fome fubterraneous habitation, from whence it iffues 
forth about funfet ; when, in countries where thefe ani- 
mals abound, the whole fields ring with their noife. 
The mole cricket is by far the moft hideous and extra- 
ordinaiy inff£t belonging to this tribe. It has obtained 
its 
