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INSECT AaCHITEGTURE, 



round their curious regular cells, having no fore- 

 claws to dig with, like the mole-cricket. When 

 taken into the hand, they never attempt to defend 

 themselves, though armed with such formidable wea- 

 pons. Of such herbs as grow about the mouth»of 

 their burrows, they eat indiscriminately, and never 

 in the day-time seem to stir more than two or three 

 inches from home. Sitting in the entrance of their 

 caverns, they chirp all night as well as day, from the 

 middle of the month of May to the middle of July. 

 In hot weather, when they are most vigorous, they 

 make the hills echo; and, in the more still hours of 

 darkness, may be heard to a very considerable dis- 

 tance. " Not many summers ago," says Mr White, 

 *' I endeavoured to transplant a colony of these in- 

 sects to the terrace in my garden, by boring deep 



Acrida oerruchoi-a dcpositiniy her Eggs. 

 The usiial position of the ovipositor is represented hy dots. 



