242 NATURAL HISTORY OF SETBORNE, 
year do not aiways survive the winter. In August their holes begin 
to be obliterated, and the insects are seen no more till spring. 
Not many summers ago I endeavoured to transplant a colony to 
the terrace in my garden, by boring deep holes in the sloping turf. 
The new inhabitants stayed some time, and fed and sung; but 
wandered away by degrees, and were heard at a farther distance 
every morning, so that it appears that on this emergency they 
made use of their wings in attempting to return to the spot from 
which they were taken. 
One of these crickets when contined in a paper cage and set in 
the sun, and supplied with plants moistened with water, will feed 
and thrive, and become so merry and loud as to be irksome in the 
same room where a person is sitting ; if the plants are not wetted 
it will die. 
