82 NATURAL HISTORY 



6th of that month, by the side of a canal, 

 his scythe struck too deep, pared off a 

 large piece of turf, and laid open to view 

 a curious scene of domestic economy : 



" ingentera lato dedit ore fenestram : 



" Apparet domus intus, et atria longa patescunt : 

 *' Apparent penetralia." 



There were many caverns and winding 

 passages leading to a kind of chamber, 

 neatly smoothed and rounded, and about 

 the size of a moderate snuff-box. Within 

 this secret nursery were deposited near an 

 hundred eggs of a dirty yellow colour, and 

 enveloped in a tough skin, but too lately 

 excluded to contain any rudiments of 

 young, being full of a viscous substance. 

 The eggs lay but shallow, and within the 

 influence of the sun, just under a little 

 heap of fresh-moved mould, like that which 

 is raised by ants. 



When mole-crickets fly, they move ''cursu 

 undoso,'' rising and falling in curves, like 

 the other species mentioned before. In 

 different parts of this kingdom people call 



