84 A NATURE WOOING. 



left with only $700, and works at odd jobs for a liv- 

 ing. Moral, beware of orange groves in north Flor- 

 ida. The climate of this part of the State is delight- 

 ful, but it is not coupled with an abundance of good 

 soil. It is a fine place to live or to winter if a person 

 has money which he has made somewhere else. Most 

 of those who make a living here get it by catering in 

 some manner to the wants of invalids or tourists from 

 the north, not by raising fruit, crops, or by manufac- 

 turing. 



In the old orange orchard I found the male of the 

 parti-colored sand locust, Scirtettica picta Scudd., 

 more abundant than at any time before. He has the 

 most prolonged stridulation of any locust known to 

 me. He zig-zags in his flight almost at right angles, 

 sometimes staying in the air for half a minute, flying 

 all about an acre or more, and finally alighting on 

 the sand within a yard of where he arose. All the 

 time he is up he sounds his musical organ with every 

 stroke of his wings, making a loud z-rr-zrr-zrr, like 

 the subdued note of the harvest fly, Cicada pruinosa 

 L., or the prolonged and angry buzz of a big bumble 

 bee. This locust has been recorded only from 

 Georgia and Florida, though it will doubtless be 

 found farther north in sandy fields close to the coast. 



A few days ago a darkey brought to the house 

 while I was away a mole cricket, Gryllotalpa borealis 

 Burm. This morning I met him for the first time 

 since, and told him what it was and something of its 



