The tliftory (?/ ANIMALS. . Jg 
wider than would be naturally imagined $ they are in a flate of reft, folded in a mod: 
accurate and elegant manner: the antennae lie on the back, and are of about half the 
length of the wings : the clypeus of the bread is of a firm texture, of a blackifh colour, 
and hairy : the anterior feet are of a very remarkable figure3 they are palmated and 
hairy. 
It is common in our fens, and other damp grounds. In Chifwick gardens there al¬ 
ways is a great number of them about the walks near the lower part of the canal -: au¬ 
thors call it Gryllotalpa, and Talpa Infedum : it is an extreamly lingular creature, and 
naturally ftartles any body at firft fight5 and what appears the more odd in it is, 
that it runs backwards as readily and fwifdy as forwards ■ it generally lives under 
ground, and digs very quick. 
Gryllus fufco-cinerafcens , alls punEUs nigris maculatis * 
The Gryllus 3 of a greyi/h-brown , with black fpots on 
the wings. 
This is about the length of the former fpecies, but it is not nearly equal to it in thicks 
nefs : it is of a very lingular colour, a deep brown, with an admixture of a whitifii 
grey 3 and there are a great number of little white dots at the origin of the wings i the 
exterior wings are beautifully fpotted with little dots of black 3 the interior ones are 
reticulated : the body is compofed of feven or eight joints3 the legs are long 3 the hin¬ 
der ones are very remarkably fo, and very robuft, and all of them are reddifh on the 
inner fide, and armed with a double feries of fpines: the eyes are large, and are floated 
with white. 
It is a native of Spain, and other the warmer parts of Europe, 
ftocuft. 
Gryllus incarnatus , femoribus fanguineis elytris virefcenti-fubfufcis. 
The red Gryllus 5 with crimfon thighs, and brownijh-green wings . 
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This is a moderately large fpecies 5 it confiderably exceeds the common grafs-hopper 
in fize ; the body is of a pale flefh colour on the upper part, and yellowifii underneath 3 
the legs are of a deep crimfon ; the exterior wings are of a clofe texture, and yellowifii 
colour toward the top 3 lower down they are reticulated in the manner of the interior 
ones: the antennas are of a cylindric figure, and are compofed of four and twenty 
joints : the hinder pair of legs have a blackifh hue, and white denticulations, and are 
terminated by four ungues 3 befides thole of the palm, there is a (harp protuberance in 
form of a fpine on the bread, between the fore legs 3 this is yellowifii 3 the reft of the 
body is brown, with a mixture of reddifh and bluifh. 
We have it in our paftures in Yorkshire, arid elfewhere in the north of England ; it 
is frequent alfo in moft of the northern countries of Europe, 
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Gryllus cauda , tnfifera reSla 5 corpore fubviridi. 
The Gryllus , with a Jlraight enjiferous tail , and' 
a greem, 
%\yt great green 
Jtocuft. 
This is a large fpecies 3 it is near two inches in length, and about the t\hicknefs pf a, 
man’s little finger 3 the bread: is covered with a firm armature of a triangular figure, 
which is extended down fideways toward-the wings: the colour of tile whole animal is 
a green, not a very bright one, with a confiderable admixture of brown : the female 
has a kind of fword at the hinder extremity of the' bdfiy 3 it isftbrmed of two/parts, or 
longitudinal valves. . *■ 1 
It is not unfrequent in paftures in many parts of Europe : Ray calls it Locufta vari^ 
dis major 3 others only, Locufta major. 
The other fpecies of tbe’wyflus are confiderably numerous \ of thofe called Grylli or 
Crickets, there ar|^ i.- The common houfe Cricket. h./The narrow-bodied field 
Cricket. 3. The large brown Cricket. 4. The little ferrugineous Cricket, with two 
long hairs at the tail. V 
Of thofe called by authors Locufts, there are, 1, The-common large Locuft. $f 
The ^fick-bodied Locuft, 3. The great-legged Loeoft/ 4. The Common Grafs- 
s.' ■ ' hopper, 
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