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appears to be more or less solitary in its habits. The writer 

 heard it most frequently in a peach orchard near the settle- 

 ment and also beneath the soil and leaves in a garden. Its 

 notes are very brief, high-pitched musical trills, tzeee-tzeee- 

 tzeee with brief intermissions. One individual delivered from 

 38 to 39 trills in a minute. This cricket may be heard in 

 stridulation very early in the morning and more or less 

 throughout the day and at night. It is rather difficult to locate 

 and capture one of these crickets by its notes, for these are 

 quickly silenced by one's approach. It is usually found beneath 

 clods of earth, matted leaves, flat stones and boards. This 

 cricket is very lively, and if uncovered leaps about vigorously. 

 Its light brown coloration makes it very inconspicuous among 

 the similarly colored leaves and soil. This species ,does not 

 appear to be especially common at Thompson's Mills. It is 

 first heard in midsummer. 



Nemobius ambitiosus, Scudd. The writer first captured this 

 little cricket at Thompson's Mills, Ga., early in April, 1910, al- 

 though he had heard its stridulations one or two years before in 

 the same locality. This pretty Nemobius is the first species to 

 appear at Thompson's Mills and dwells among leaves in decidu- 

 ous woods. This cricket is especially common on a warm, 

 heavily wooded slope bordering a small brook just east of the 

 settlement. Its trill is very brief, high-pitched and shrill, 

 tiiiiiiii-tiiiiii-tiiiiiiiii-tiiiiiiii. Late in July the writer also met 

 with small colonies of this cricket in other localities around 

 Thompson's Mills. It is one of the commonest species of 

 Nemobius in this vicinity and begins to stridulate as soon as 

 spring opens in March and April. In April 1910 very cold 

 periods of weather with considerable sleet and snow complete- 

 ly silenced these hardy crickets. Notwithstanding this in- 

 clement weather these crickets were always in active stridula- 

 tion as soon as the clays became warmer. Rehn and Hebard 

 have said of this Nemobius in Southern Georgia : "The sound 

 produced by the males is quite different from that of any 

 other species, but it would be indeed impossible to describe the 

 pitch which makes it so." 



