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to be late in the fall of the year. They live on the ground, 

 usually near water, either in boggy places, along the banks of 

 streams, the shores of small lakes or swamps, in woods, or 

 more rarely on dry upland ground. They feed upon the vege- 

 table mold or decomposing soil sometimes mixed with algn;,* or 





Fig. 2. Swampy meadow inliabited by Tettigidae. From a photograph. 



on the lichens, mosses, tender sprouting grasses, sedges, germi- 

 nating seeds of plants and debris found in such situations. 

 Particularly sought-after morsels are the various colored surface 

 clays and the black muck, consisting of rich vegetable mold.f 

 They are ravenous eaters, as one might infer from the dietary 

 list just mentioned, and the fecal excrement, on reaching the 



» .\ microscopic examination of the abdominal contents of TV/Zii- showed numbers of 

 mold spores and alga: mixed with particles of quartz sand. There were also some infu- 

 soria-like bodies and macerated material. (July 4, 1901.) 



t See article by the author on " The Food Habits of the Tettigida;." Ent. Record and 

 Jour. Variation. X. p. 6-7, iSqS. 



