

The House Cricket, Acheta domestica, gaining access to the milk-jug by a 

 sprig of holly. 



THE CRICKET. INTRODUCTORY. 



N eminent French Entomologist, Reaumur, has 

 very justly observed, that " it is certainly no 

 fault of Nature's if we do not possess works 

 upon Insects which everybody may read with 

 pleasure." His most amusing, though rather 

 voluminous publication, * Memoires pour servir a 1'Histoire des 

 Insectes/ 1734, went far to supply 2 in his time, the deficiency 

 at which he hints, and in ours, amidst the multitude of familiar 

 books on every subject, it might certainly be supposed that there 

 is no lack of such as would suit and please everybody on this. 



No inquisitive mind need complain of any want of keys for 

 the simple opening of that drawer in Nature's cabinet (a drawer 



