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/us Uhler. This is one of the most highly colored and beau- 

 tiful crickets found in the United States. Its head audprono- 

 tum are a bright crimson, making it very conspicuous as it 

 crawls and leaps among the leaves of vines and shrubbery. 

 This pretty cricket dwells on shrubbery usually within 2 or 3 

 feet on the ground. It is most abundant in low grounds bor- 

 dering streams, although I have occasionally found it in thick- 

 ets in upland situations, and even in the foliage of asters and 

 cotton plants. Its song is a weak, high-pitched trill recalling 

 the trill of CEcanthns quadripunctatus, although not as smooth 

 and as uniform in tone. Heard close at hand, the trill is waver- 

 ing, irregular, with an attendant unmusical shuffling or scrap- 

 ing of the wings, as if these were rather slowly and loosely 

 vibrated upon each other. During the act of singing the 

 tegmina are elevated almost perpendicular to the back, as is 

 the habit in (Ecanthus a rather unusual procedure for almost 

 all our other species of crickets. This cricket is musical by 

 day and at night, and is very common at Thompson's Mills, 

 Georgia. 



The tiny, inconspicuous cricket Cycloptihis sguamosusScud- 

 der also occurs at Thompson's Mills. In September, 1909, I 

 took a male and a female, but have never heard it stridulate. 

 This cricket is a ground-dwelling species, and does not appear 

 to be common in this locality. Nothing is known concerning 

 any stridulating powers which this cricket may possess. 



The mole cricket, Gryllotalpa borealis Burmeister, is one of 

 the largest and commonest crickets at Thompson's Mills. 

 Notwithstanding its large size and odd appearance, this cricket 

 is very rarely seen by the ordinary observer, since it dwells 

 entirely within burrows which it excavates close to the surface 

 of the ground in damp soils. Its notes are strong, low-pitched 

 chirps, persistently repeated at brief intervals gr-r-r-r-r 

 gr-r-r-r-r gr-r-r-r-r. It is a rather interesting fact that 

 although beneath the surface of damp or wet soils, this cricket 

 quickly responds to damp spells of weather by chirping more 

 actively and vigorously. The slightest tread notifies the in- 

 sect of one's approach, whereupon the notes abruptly cease. 

 Its stridulations are usually heard in the afternoons, but also 

 more or less at night. Although this mole cricket prefers 

 to burrow in wet soils and banks along streams, I have 

 captured it in damp, isolated spots in dry upland cotton fields. 

 The notes of this cricket are usually attributed to small frogs. 



These are only a few of the musical insects heard at Thomp- 

 son's Mills, Georgia, the trillings and lispings of which have 



