The naturalists' miscellany, or, Coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described immediately from nature

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are thichly coaled with strong, sharp spines, of a considerable tength, and perfectly resembling those of the

Common porcupine, excepi that instead of being annulated with severat alternate rings of blach and white, as in that animal, they are mostly white, With blacktips, the colour running down to some litile distance onthe quili, and being separated from the white part by a

form longue, as in the ant-eaters. The nostriis are

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iis first discoverers the ant-eating porcupine. It is anative of New Holland. It cannot escape the observation os every scientificnaturalist, that in consequence of the discovery of this curious animal, the Linnaean character of the genus

Myrmecophaga is in pari rendered inapplicabie. Sincethere re the animais in the genera os Myrmecophaga and Manis differ only in the externat coating of thebody, the former being covered with hair and the lalter With scales, it would perhaps be not improper to Con-join the two genera, to add this as a neW species, andio give as part of the generic character Corpus pilis, squamis, vel aculeis tectum. But is this be not done, it Would perhaps be proper to mahe this animal constitutea ne W genus, Which would differ from the genera os Manis and Myrmecophaga in having the body coaledwith aculei, instead of hair as in the Myrmecophaga, or os scales as in the Manis.

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CICADA PLEBEI A.

Antennae setaceae. Alin quatuor, membranaceae, defleXae.

ARACTER SPECIFICUS, Uc. CICADA scutelli apice bidentato, elytris anastOmosibus quatuor, lineisque sex ferrugineis.

Cicada, quam saepissime memorant poetae antiqui, qUamque communiter Cham gryllo vulgari seu campestri Confundunt plerique interpretes, Europam incolit calidiorem, in Italia et Graecia, ut plUrimVm reperita Species notissima, seu cicada plebeia Linnaei quam depinximus, aestate calidistima conspicitur, ramoque insidens per totum fere diem stridulum canit et acutum. In Italia est altera species, quae cicada orni Linnaei)huic simillima, sed minor. Majorum cicadarum variae sunt

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sunt species, adeo inter se similes, ut revera licet diveris, easdem tamen putarent incuriosi spectatores. omnes ab ovis originem ducunt, quae deponUnt parentes in arborum radicibus juxta terram, quaeque in larvas excluduntur, a veteribus scriptoribus Tettigometrarum nomine distinctas. Peracto duorum annorum spatio, exuvias ponunt larVae, perfectumque nascitur insectum. Figura tertia Tettigometram seu larvam cicadae plebeiae monstrat. Notandum est in Britannia plurimas esse cicadarum species; parvulae tamen sunt, nec vocem seu stridorem notabilem emittunt.

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COMMON CICAD A.

Antennae seta COUS. Wings Dur, membranaceous, deflected.

The Cicada, so osten commemoraled by the ancient poets, and so generalty con unded by the major partos transsators With the grasshopper, is a native of the Warmer paris of Europe, and is particularly plentifulin Italy and Greece. The most common species, orcicada plebeia, here represented, appears in the holter monilis of summer, and continues iis stirili chirpingduring the greatest part of the day; sitiing amongst the leaves of trees. In Italy there is another species, the cicada orni, Lin: hich bears a Very great generat resemblance to the former but is considerably lese :indeed amongst the larger cicadae there are severat soris, whicli,

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whicli, though reatly distinet, are yet so very nearly al-lied to each other, as to be easiily regarded, On a Cursoryvieru, as the fame species. All the cicadae proceed fromeggs, Whicli are deposited by the parent insecis in andabout the roots of trees, near the ground : they halchinto larvae, Whicli, When grown to a certain siZe, arethe Tettigometrae of the older writers. These larvae, after having continued in this state two years, cast their stitas and produce the complete insedi. Fig. s. sine sthe larva or Tettigometra of the cicada plebeia. Ιshould observe that in Our own country we have seVerat species of this genus, Whicli however are extremelysmali, and are not distinguis hed by any sound sussicient

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INDEX. INDEX.

Io8. Anas Plutonia. Io I. Argonauta Argo. Io3. Asterias Caput Medusae. 99. Casuarius Australis. 94. Coluber nassicornis. IO7. Cercaria mutabilis. Io2. Certhia Cardinalis. 5. Certhia coccinea. IIo. Cicada plebeia. Io6. Isis Hippuris. 82. Isis nobilis. 83. Lacerta varia. 89. Lacerta unistriata. Io5. Loxia Cardinalis. 79. Madrepora Fungites. 93. Mantis strumaria. 78. Merops superbUS. 9 I. Monoculus Polyphemus. Io9. Myrmecophaga aculeata.

7. Papilio Helena. 92. Papilio Ulysses. 83. Phalangium cancroides. 9o. Platalea ' a.

87. Psittacus concinnUS. 93. Psittacus eXimius. 96. Psittacus pulchellus. Io4. Ptinus fatidicus.76. Rana CornUta. 8o. Scarabaeus Goliathus.1oo. Scorpio Aser.