THE 
EGYPTIAN LOCUST. 
Generic Character. 
Head infledted, armed with jaws, and furniflied 
with palpi or feelers. 
Antennae either fetaceous or filiform. 
Wings four, defiedted, convolute; the lower ones 
plaited. 
Hind-Feet formed for leaping. Claivs on all the 
feet double. 
Specific Character, &c. 
GREAT RED or BROWN LOCUST, with 
crefted thorax and variegated wings. 
The GREAT ARABIAN LOCUST. 
The EGYPTIAN LOCUST. 
In the defeription of the Gryllus migratorlus, or 
wandering locufl, deferibed in a former number of 
the prefent work, I mentioned a fpecies of far fu- 
perior magnitude, which, together with others of 
the genus, is frequently ufed as an article of food in 
the 
