BRITISH INSECTS 



houses as for old. So far we have been concerned with 

 members of the Order Orthoptera which move quickly 

 by a crawling or running movement, but in the Family 

 Gryllidce, or Crickets, we come to the first section of 

 those which resort to hopping, jumping, or leaping. 

 These insects have long, thin antenna;, or feelers, and 

 two, or at most three-jointed, legs. Almost all the 

 Crickets are dressed in a sober coat of brownish, or horn 

 colour, and the majority of them resort to burrowing, 

 or hiding under, or in, any favourable places. The 



Fiqr 6- 



^ MoU Cr^Lcke^r 



rarer Mole Cricket (Gryllotalpa, Fig. 6), has acquired 



its English Christian name because of its front pair of 



legs being used for the same purpose as those of the 

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