LOCUST. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head inflected, armed with jaws and furnished with palpi. 
Antennae filiform. 
Wings four ; declined, and wrapped round the sides of the 
body. 
Two claws on each foot; hind-feet formed for leaping. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Gryllus migratorius. G. thorace subcarinato : segnlento unico 
capite obtuso, maxillis atris. Linn. 
Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1. p. 20 75. 
Thorax subcarinated ; a single obtuse 
segment on the head : jaws black. 
Gryllus migratorius. Frisch. Ins.g. 
pi. 1. f. 8. 
Acrydium migratorium. Degeer 
Ins. 3. p. 466. no. 1. pi. 23. f. 1. 
L 0CU g T Sei. Mus. 4. pi. 65. f. 21. Shaw Gen. 
Zool. 6. p. 128. pi. 48. 
The very name of this insect conveys a sensation 
of horror and disgust, which is naturally excited 
in our minds by the recollection of the dreadful 
scourge which it has occasionally been to mankind. 
