INSECTS. HEMIPTERA. 6o. Gryllus. 
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Brovvnifli ; neck, thorax and thighs ferrate. 
Inhabits Drury Inf. z.f. 89. tab. 50; large. 
Greenifli; tail forked: antennx filiform, as long as the 
body. 
Antigua. Drury Inf. i.tab. ^O.fg. 3. 
Body varied with yellow and brown ; wings hyaline with 
"reddilb nerves. 
Inhabits Siberia, Lefech. It. l. tab. 17. fg, 8. 
Is probably only a variety of M.puftlla. 
Cinereous ; thorax toothed : wings half as long as the 
Inhabit^ the deferts of Siberia. Pall. It. 2. Apf. n. 8t. 
Crown with a conic fpine : _ antennx feathered, linear : 
hind-thighs terminating in a lobe. 
Inhabits the deferts bordering on the Ca/pian Sea ■, xc.cnMcs 
in Ihape and colour Mantis gongyhdcs. Pall. It. z. App. n. S i . 
60. GRYLLUS. Head infleaed, armed 
with jaws : feelers filiform : antennis 
fetaceous or filiform i wings 4, deflea- 
cd convolute ; the lower ones plaited : 
hind-legs formed for leaping: claws 
double on all the feet. 
The InfeAs of this family fecdon plants and herbs, except thofe 
of the divilion Truxalis, which prey on other infcfts : the lar- 
and puper. rcfcmble the perfett infeAs, rcude chiefly under 
ground, aiid are 6-footcd voracious and aAive: they were the 
only animals of this Ciafs which Moles permitted the 
to eat, and are, at prefent, ufed as an article of food by the 
natives of Africa and India, ^ 
A. Antenner. enftfonn ; head conic, longer than the thorax. 
Truxalis. 
Head conic : body green. 
Inhabits Africa. Seba. Muf. tab. tpb.fg. 4 ’’ . 
Mouth placed at the bafe of the liead ; antennae at the tip : nmttgs 
foroetimes hyaline. 
Con tens. 
