CRICKETS. 



published more than several years ago; it refers to what is 

 called in them Xiphidium, and Conoce phalus in such 

 books refers to what should be called Neoconoceplialus. 

 The members of all three genera have the habit of dodging 

 around to the other side of the grass-blade or weed-stalk 

 when you approach, rather than trusting to flight. They 

 place their eggs, by means of their sharp ovipositors, in 

 the leaves of grasses, pith of twigs, and in similar situations. 



All grasshoppers are wingless when they 

 Wingless are y oun g k u t t | le members of certain 



Grasshoppers 



genera do not get w r mgs even when mature. 



Ceuthophilus (see Plate XX) is the most common genus, 

 especially in the Northeast, and its members have been 

 nicknamed " Cave Crickets "; but they are not crickets and, 

 while some species live in caves, the majority live in 

 cellars, under the floors of out-buildings, under stones, in 

 hollow logs, and the like. For some reason they are also 

 called "Camel Crickets." Atlanticus is a genus usually 

 found under fallen leaves in woods; its male members still 

 retain remnants of the front wings, and, by using these, 

 they are able to make sounds. Kellogg says of the 

 "Jerusalem Crickets" (Stenopelmatus] which live on the 

 Pacific Coast that they are large, awkward, thick-legged 

 creatures with "baby-faces." 



GRYLLID^E 



One of the points of distinction between the long-horned 

 grasshoppers and Crickets was given in the discussion of 

 Tettigoniidai; another is that the ovipositors of crickets, 

 when long, are needle-like. The musical apparatus of the 

 males (see Plate XX, which shows also an "ear" on a front 

 leg) occupies a relatively larger portion of the wing-covers 

 than it does among the Tcttigoniidas. Many of the 

 species, especially of Nemobius, Gryllus, and Gryllotalpa, 

 occur in two forms: one with short, and one with long, 

 functional hind wings. 



These creatures, the Mole-crickets (Plate 

 Gryllotalpa 



XX), have curiously enlarged front legs, 

 which are used in excavating their burrows; the hind 



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