the 
MIGRATORY, 
O R, 
WANDERING LOCUST. 
Generic Character. 
Head inflected, armed with jaws, and furnifhed 
with palpi or feelers. 
Antennce either fetaceous, or filiform. 
Wings four, defle&ed, convolute; the inferior 
ones plaited. 
Hind-Feet formed for leaping. Claws on all the 
feet double. 
Specific Character. 
GRYLLUS with fubcarinated thorax with a 
fmgle fegment, obtufe head, and blackifh 
or blueilh jaws. 
Of all the infedts which are capable of adding to the 
calamities of mankind by devouring the produ&s of the 
earth, locufts feem to'poflefs the molt formidable pow- 
res of deftrudtion. Legions of thefe voracious crea¬ 
tures are from time to time produced in various parts of 
Africa and the Eaftern World, where" the havock they 
commit is almoft incredible. They carry defclation 
with 
