. The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. C 9 ] PLATE LXXIX. GRYLLUS Shells, or upper wings, femi-cruftaceous, not divided by a ftraightfuture, but incumbent on each other. Beak curved downward. GENERIC CHARACTER. Head maxillous, and with palpi. Antennae filiform, or folde
. The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. C 9 ] PLATE LXXIX. GRYLLUS Shells, or upper wings, femi-cruftaceous, not divided by a ftraightfuture, but incumbent on each other. Beak curved downward. GENERIC CHARACTER. Head maxillous, and with palpi. Antennae filiform, or folded. Hind legs ftrong for leaping. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Head and .horax dark brown, marked with lines of white. Wingspale brown edged with yellow, and feveral whitifh marks near theirextremity. Body beneath, and legs, red-brown. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 702. 55.—Fn. Sv. 875. ACRIDIUM BiGUTTULUM, &c. Degeer. Inf. 3. 479. BiGUTTULUS. Schaeff. Icon. Tab. 190: Fig. I. a.—Fab. Spec. Inf. i. 370. 45. Though few infeds require more elucidation to be well underftoodth^in thofe of the Qryllus genus, no part of the fcience has be^n lefsregarded even by fyftematic writers, who certainly appear to havebeen moft interefttd to obtain a fatisfacftory knowledge of them : theprefent fpecies is continued by Fabriciusy in his Species
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