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FIG. 50.— GRYLLOTALPA LONGIPEXXIP— THE MOLE CRICKET- 

 ITS CAVE AND EGGS. 



sages by means of its spade-like limbs, and traversing 

 them in search of prey. Like the mole, it is fierce and 

 quarrelsome, is ready to figlit with its own kind, and, 

 if victorious, always tears its vanquished opponent to 

 pieces. Like the mole, it is exceedingly voracious, and 

 if confined without food with several of its own species 

 the strongest will devour the weakest. We may close 

 the, analogy by saying that, like the mole, it is useful 

 enough in the fields, where its tunnels form a kind of 

 subsoil drainage, but is equally destructive in the gar- 

 den among young plants and flowers, upon whose roots 

 it feeds. The European species [GrylMnlpa ridr/aris) is 

 often quite a pest, but our American species has not yet 



