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liome for itself. The front wings of the adult are 

 short, whilst the hind pair is much longer, and 

 frequently ends in thread-like tails. The mole 

 cricket often spoils the even surface of a lawn by 

 forming tiny mounds. 



We have seen the nest of a mole cricket made of 

 hardened earth worked up in the form of a tiny 

 cavern, and the eggs were deposited in several clus- 

 ters in this. (Plate 7, Figs, i and 2.) There were 

 tiny baby mole crickets also in the nest. This 

 was obtained about 2 inches below the surface of 

 garden soil. 



Many wingless types of crickets are to be met 

 with. 



Observations on the. Mole Cricket. (Plate 9.) 



( Gryllotalpa coarctata- ) 



(Taken from the ''Australian Naturalist" by Mabel 

 N. Brewster.) 



On a bright afternoon in November I heard 

 several crickets chirping, and going carefully to- 

 wards the sound till I located them, I pulled up a 

 number of plants of the Umbrella Sedge {Cy penis), 

 for crickets love roots of plants. I turned over 

 the soil and found a beautiful little "cricket home" 

 with two little doorways leading into a tiny under- 

 ground cavern about two inches in diameter. (Plate 

 9, Figs. T and 2.) Its- walls were quite firm an-l 

 strong and near this little home were a small and 

 a large cricket. 



I then turned over an old stump and gently 

 scraped lumps of earth that were adhering to it, and 



