HEMIPTERA. 
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GENUS 2.—MANTIS SOOTHSAYER. 
There are none in Britain ; yet Barbut gives an 
account of the genus. 
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By fome it is called Camel-Cricket; by others 
Creeping Leaf. 
The French peafants efteem it facred, on account 
of its affuming a.fupj)Heating pofbure. The Africans 
like wife revere it. 
GENUS 3.—GRYLLUS CRICKET. 
The larvae very much refemble the perfect infefls ; 
and, in general, live under-ground. The chryfalids 
very much refemble and accompany their parents, 
many of which feed upon the leaves, of plants ; 
others, which live in houfes, prefer bread, meal, 
and every kind of farinaceous fubflance. 
They are called locufts, grafshoppers, and crickets. 
The crickets are fo called on account of the noife. 
Tow ards fun-fet, they like bed to appear out of their 
fubterraneous habitations, making the fields ring with 
their cry, efpecially in fine fummer weather. 
The domeflic grylli are very troublefome ; but a 
fuperditious notion, that they bring good luck, 
preferves them. 
The frnoke of charcoal will deflroy them. Loud 
founds will drive them away. 
Gryllo-Talpa 
