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LOCUSTIDÆ.
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wings transparent, tinged with green at the base; abdomen testaceous; hinder thighs angular, and spotted with black on the inner side; tibiæ red. Found abundantly in Egypt, Barbary, and in the south of Europe; occasionally extending as far north as Paris and even Britain.


LOCUSTA DUX.

Plate XV. Fig. 2.

Gryllus Dux, Linn. Fabr.—Drury, Pl. XLIV.—Encycl. Method. No. 4, (Acrydium).—Serville's Revis. Orth. 92.

One of the largest migratory locusts known; the tegmina often measuring eight or nine inches from one extremity to the other. The head is dull-yellow, with an olive tinge: the thorax dusky-olive, ridged on the sides, and having an elevated dentate ridge down the back; tegmina dull-green, with numerous ill-defined dark spots; wings red, with a black edge, and parallel rows of black spots, most of them resembling the beards of arrows: abdomen olive-green or yellowish; legs red; the thighs chequered with white. A native of tropical America.


LOCUSTA CRISTATA.

Plate XVI. Fig. 1.

Gryllus Cristatus, Linn. Fabr.—Roesel's Insect. tom. ii. Gryll. Pl. 5, figs. 1, 2.—Stoll's Sauterelles de passage, Pl. 9 b. fig. 30.

A large species, sometimes measuring nearly four inches in length. Head and eyes brown; thorax olive-green, ridged along the back, and marked with four transverse impressions; tegmina greyish-green,