hoe NATURAL HISTORY.’ 
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‘Ta IS family of infects is called in England, crick- F 
ets, from the jound, or noife they make. Towards 
fun fet they leave their fubterraneous habitations, 
when they make the fields refound with their chirp- 
ings. Lhe domeftic grillaz abide in ovens, and hearths 
on which wood is burnt: Here they frequently are ~ 
troublefome, by their perpetual noife, and crawling © 
about perfons fitting near the fire. But a popular” 
prejudice, in many parts of England, prevents their — 
being driven away, or deftroyed: For poor peafants, © 
and common people, imagine they bring good fortune 
to whatever houfe they attach themfelves.—So true: 
it is, that the moft abfurd chimeras enter the minds 
of the ignorant, who are always prone to fuperftitious © 
errors. oh : 
This infectis chiefly difinguifhed by having atits — 
hinder extremity two briftles. 
‘The domeftic and the field cricket are the fame 
f{pecies ; all the difference is, that the former more | 
inclines to a yellow, and the latter to a brown hue. ) 
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GENUS IV. 
FULGORA. 
CHARACTER. | SS 
I HE front of the head is empty, and extended. — 
The horns, which have two articulations, are fcaled — 
below the-eyes. . 
