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ciate together ; but he is mistaken in that 

 assertion, as Linnaeus suspected he was^ 

 They are altogether night insects, lucifugcB, 

 never coming forth till the rooms are dark 

 and still, and escaping away nimbly at the 

 approach of a candle. Their antennae are. 

 remarkably long, slender, and flexile. 



October 1790. After the servants are 

 gone to bed, the kitchen hearth swarms 

 with young crickets, and young hlattce mo- 

 lendinar'i(B of all sizes, from the most minute 

 growth to their full proportions. They 

 seem to live in a friendly manner together, 

 and not to prey the one on the other. 



August 1792. After the destruction of 

 many thousands oiblattce molendinaricB, we 

 find that at intervals a fresh detachment of 

 old ones arrives, and particularly during 

 this hot season ; for the windows being left 

 open in the evenings, ^he males come 

 flying in at the casements from the neigh- 

 bouring houses, which swarm with them. 

 How the females, that seem to have no 

 perfect wings that they can use, can con- 

 trive to get from house to house, does not. 



