A new and accurate system of natural history .. . t the rudiments of them, and the tail is body is of a brownifh colour, or rather of awhitifh black. It differs from the land Cricket, inhaving a more prominent head, and fomewhat of aneck. The wings feem likewife to be ufelefs forflying, though they help to raife this infed up. It iscommonly feen fitting upon water-plants, and is faidto fmg like the land Crickets. LOCUSTS, including Grafshoppers, have the famediUinguifhing marks as the former ; but there is agreater variety with regard to their fhapes and colours,as well as their man
A new and accurate system of natural history .. . t the rudiments of them, and the tail is body is of a brownifh colour, or rather of awhitifh black. It differs from the land Cricket, inhaving a more prominent head, and fomewhat of aneck. The wings feem likewife to be ufelefs forflying, though they help to raife this infed up. It iscommonly feen fitting upon water-plants, and is faidto fmg like the land Crickets. LOCUSTS, including Grafshoppers, have the famediUinguifhing marks as the former ; but there is agreater variety with regard to their fhapes and colours,as well as their manner of leaping and flying. Someare green, fome black, fome livid, and fome va-riegated, but many of them do not fhew all their co-lours till they fly. Some have longer legs, fomeOiorter, which differ in the joints. Some fing, othersare mute, and fome are innocent, doing no damageto the hulbandman ; and others again, do fuch pro-digious mifchief, that they are looked upon to be nobetter tiian a plague. The I (IJort ir/i 1/ tr7Aj/t47/j6er. Pn^e ^^. TrcruJtJC. OFINSECTS. 59 The Bfanijh LOCUST or GRASSHOPPER is abouttwo inches and a half long, and is of a deep browncolour, with a mixture of a whitifh-grey j there arealfo a great number of little w. ite fpecks at the root ofthe wings. The outer wingf are beautifully fpeckledwith black, and the under es feem to be formedlike nets. The body is compofed of feven or eightjoints, and the legs are long, efpecially the hindermoft,and very robuft ; they are all reddifh on the inner fide,and armed with a double row of a fort of eyes are large, and flreaked with white. It iscommon in the fouthern parts of Europe, The LOCUST or GRASSHOPPER nuith hlood-tohured thighs^ and the outermojl <voings of a broivnijbgreeny is much larger than th^ common Grafshopper,and the body is ot a pale fleih-colour on the upperpart, and yellowifli underneath ; but the legs are outermoft wings are of a clofe texture, being ©fa brownifh-green
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