Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . he pectoral fins of theFlying Gurnard, the resemblance being increased by their dark,shining surface. The generic name Gryllacris is Greek, signify-ing cricket-locust; and the specific name signifera is Latin,and means a standard-bearer. The next family is called Acrididce, from a Greek word signi-fying a grasshopper. The Acrididee resemble the Locustidrcin the arrangement of their elytra, which are boldly may, however, be distinguished by their antennas, which arevery slen
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . he pectoral fins of theFlying Gurnard, the resemblance being increased by their dark,shining surface. The generic name Gryllacris is Greek, signify-ing cricket-locust; and the specific name signifera is Latin,and means a standard-bearer. The next family is called Acrididce, from a Greek word signi-fying a grasshopper. The Acrididee resemble the Locustidrcin the arrangement of their elytra, which are boldly may, however, be distinguished by their antennas, which arevery slender and hair-like, alter running to a wonderful length,and sometimes having more than two hundred joints. They alsodiffer from the Locustidae in the structure of the feet, whichhave four joints instead of three. There are very many speciescomprised in this family, and it is therefore necessary to selecta few examples of those species which present the most strikingcharacteristics. The first and perhaps the most important of these insects isthe Migratory Locust, so familiar to us by its frequent mention. Fig. lub\—Pachytylus lnigratorius.(Green, mottled with dark brown.) in Holy Writ. The elytra of this insect are green-brown,mottled with a darker hue, the colour being much more brilliantduring the life of the insect than after its death. Some of these 332 INSECTS ABROAD. mottlings extend to the head, where they assume shapes bearingsome resemblance to Arabic letters. In his Thalaba Southeymakes an ingenious use of these marks:— The admiring girl surveyedHis outspread sails of green,His gauzy underwings,One closely to the grass-green body furled,One ruffled in the fall and half viewed his jet-orbed eyes,His glossy gorget brightGreen glittering in the sun ;His plumy, pliant horns,That, nearer as she gazed,Bent tremblingly before her marked his yellow-circled front With lines mysterious veined ;And Knowest thou what is here inscribed, My father I said t
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