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vocal kind, or that it is peculiar to this Chinefe infect to be furnifhed with lamelle that caufe a found. 
The latter account confirms fuch conjeéture, by alluding in a fpecific manner to the mot/y Cicada, as to an 
infe& defcribed in a former part of the work. We muft remark, that not only the males of the {pecies 
mentioned by that author, are furnifhed with thofe lamellz, but the whole of that fection of the Linnzan 
Cicada which Fabricius has called Tettiogonia 4. The males of the fpecies included. in the other fections 
of that genus are certainly furnifhed with them alfo; though fome of them are too minute to be obferved 
without a glafs. Thefe lamellz vary in fize in different {pecies; but the accounts we have of them from 
travellers in foreign countries, and naturalifts both ancient and modern, prove they all emit a certain found 
to allure the female.. As we are unable to afcertain the Chinefe fpecies Sir George mentions, neither 
figure or defcription accompanying his account of it, we muft therefore, fpeak generally of the whole 
genus, and then confine our remarks to thofe fpecies we are acquainted with from China. Among thefe 
are C. /pendidula, fanguinea, and atrata. The latter, we believe, is the largeft {pecies of the Chinefe Ci- 
cade known in Europe, 
Some fpecies of this tribe were known to the ancients. ‘With them it was the emblem of happinefs 
and eternal youth*; and if we examine the legends of pagan mythology, we find they were deemed a 
race of creatures beloved by godsf and men. The Athenians wore golden Cicadz in their hair, to denote 
their national antiquity; or that like thofe creatures they were the jiz/t born of the earth; and the poets 
feigned that it partook of the perfection of their deities $. Amnacreon depiétures in glowing colours the 
uninterrupted felicity of this creature: his ode to the Cicada is appropriate to our enquiry °. 
d This includes all the larger fpecies of Linnean Cicadz, fuch as C. Orni, Tidicien, retioulata; haematodes, ftridula, &c. &c. for in pene 
editions of the Syftema Nature of Linnzeus we find Cicada Noéiluce, which in later editions are the Fulgore, and alfo the C. cruciate, 
mannifera, fpumantes and deflexe included in one genus. 
¢ Probably becaufe it was fuppofed to live only a fhort time. The renewal of youth is illuftrated by the ftory of the Tithonus 
transformed by Aurora into a Cicada. 
& Thefe pagan deities were without ficth or blood, and:compofed of aerial and watery humours, Such they imagined the moifture of 
the Cicada, and perhaps for that reafon firft affigned it a place among their demi-gods. 
h Happy creature! what below Thine the lavifhed voice of praife, 
Can more happy live than thou ? Harbinger of fruitful days ; 
Seated on thy leafy.throne, Darling of the tuneful nine, 
(Summer weaves the verdant crown,) f Phoebus is thy fire divine ; 
Sipping o’er the pearly lawn Phebus to thy notes has giv’n 
The fragrant neétar of the dawn; Mofic from the fpheres of heav’n: 
Little tales thou lov’ft to fing, ‘Happy moft, as firft of earth, 
Tales of mirth—an infect king All thy hours are peace and mirth; 
Thine the treafures of the field, Cares nor pains to thee belong, 
All thy own the feafons yield ; Thou alone art ever young ; 
Nature paints for thee the year, Thine the pure immortal yein, 
Songfter to the fhepherds dear : Blood nor flefh thy life fuftains 
Innocent, of placid fame, Rich in fpirits—health thy feaft, 
What of man can boaft.the fame ? Thou’rt.a demi-god at leat. Green’s Tranfl. Ode 43. 
