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join near the breaft, and there is on each fide, a black {pot on the head 
and breaft, but they both unite into one: the feelers are fhort, the 
Ore-head is a little furrowed tranfverfely, and the body, when the 
Wings are extended, appears to be yellow on the middle, and black on 
€ach fide. It may be met with in pafture grounds in Fune. 
Linnaeus has eight forts of Cicade, which he calls the American La-+ 
ternaria, the Chinefe Laternaria, the Ranatra, the ‘flea Locuft, the Ci- 
cada with a double homed breaft, the Cicada bearing manna, the Ci- 
‘cada of the elm-tree, and the Cicada of the rofe. 
Other authors have the Jfalian or true Cicada, which is an inch long, 
“More than half an inch broad, and of a dufky-brown colour: the fmaller 
Tialian Cicada: the brown Cicada, with wings {potted with paler brown, 
and with pundated nerves: the black Cicada with three equal tranfverfe 
white lines: the yellow Cicada with wings fpotted with brown, and 
Marked with four ‘black fpots, but ‘yellow on the hinder part: the 
Whitith Cicada with a black longitudinal line on each fide: the black 
icada with white eyes: the black'Cicada with the edges of the exter- 
hal wings white: the black Cicada with a white ‘head : the yellow com- 
Prefled Cicada: the Cicada with greenifh yellow wings, with the ex- 
tremities black, and gilded: this is the elm Cicada mentioned by Lin- 
Neus: the yellow ‘Cicada ‘with the exremity of the wings white and 
™Membranaceous: the leaft white Cicada. - t 
.. The proper Cimew is generally canderftood ‘to ‘mean only a common 
Bug; and Linneus defines*#t to‘be an infeé: with a fnout bending down- 
Wards, and feélers that have four ‘joints, four cruciated wings, feet 
Proper for running, a flat back, and a marginated breaft. : 
This is one of thofe naufeous-infeéts that intrude upon the retreats 
f mankind ; and that often banifh that fleep, which even forrow and 
@nxiety permitted to approach. “This, to many men, is, of all other 
Infeas, the moft troublefome and obnoxious. The night is ufually the 
eafon when the wretched have reft from their Jabour ; but this feems 
the only feafon when the bug iffues from its retreats, to make its de 
Predations. By day it lurks like a robber, in the moft fecret parts of 
ed; takes the advantage of every chink and cranny, to make a fecure 
Cdgment; and contrives its habitation ‘with fo much art, that fearce 
any induftry can difcover its retreat. It feems to avoid the light with 
Steat cunning ; and even if candles be kept burning, this formidable 
Infe& will not iflue from its hiding-place. But when’ darknefs promi- 
& fecurity, it then iffues from every corner of the bed, drops from 
t € tefter, crawls from behind ‘the arras, and travels with great afli- 
ity to the unhappy patient, who vainly wifhes for reft and refrefh- 
ent. It is generally vain to deftroy one only, as there are hundreds 
More to revenge their companion’s fate 5 fo that the perfon who thus 
18 fubje@ to be bitten, remains the whole night like a centinel upon 
uty, rather watching the approach of frefh invaders, than inviting the 
Pleafing approaches of fleep. : 
¢ Nor are thefe infects lefs difagreeable from their naufeous flench, than 
‘i cir unceafing appetites. When they begin to crawl, the whole bed 
ingested with the fmell; but if they are accidentally killed, then it is 
Upportable. 
hefe are a part of the inconveniences that refult from the perfectition 
thefe odious infeéts: but happily for Great Diitain, they multiply lefs 
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