222 GLEANINGS FROM NATURE. 



of small woodland streams, or beneath logs and 

 chunks in damp woods, in which places seldom less 

 than two, nor more than three or. four, are found 

 associated together. 



That they are well nigh omnivorous in their choice 

 of food, I have determined hy keeping them in con- 

 finement, when they 

 fed upon meat as 

 well as upon pieces 

 of fruit and vegeta- 

 bles, seemingly pre- 

 ferring* the latter. 



Fig. 53 Stone or Camel Cricket. 5 



Ceuthophiiu* macuiatus (Say). 1 he majority of the 



(Female. After Lugger.) SpedeS evidently 



reach maturity and deposit their eggs in the late sum- 

 mer or early autumn, as the full grown insects are 

 more common then, but have been taken as late as 

 December 1st. The eggs, which are supposed to be 

 laid in the earth, usually hatch in April ; but some are 

 hatched in autumn and the young live over winter 

 (an anomaly among, the Locustidse), as I have taken 

 them in January and February from the localities 

 which the adults frequent in summer. Several of the 

 species inhabit caves and are usually of much larger 

 size, with longer antennse and smaller compound eyes 

 than those found above ground. 



GRYLLIM. 



The Gryllidce or crickets are, in the main, distin- 

 guished from other Orthopterous insects, by having 

 the wing covers flat above and bent abruptly down- 



