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THE CRICKET NOT PUGNACIOUS. 



whom it had been taken in a garden near London, in 

 July, 1826. 



Grasshoppers do not when in a state of freedom 

 appear to attack their own kindred, although they do 

 so when they are confined together. Being desirous 

 of ascertaining if a similar propensity prevailed 

 among crickets, I took four, and confined them for 

 eighteen hours without food, yet no one among 

 them inflicted the slightest injury on his feUow-pri- 

 soners. I gave them their freedom ; and on the 

 succeeding day took six others, differing very much 



Blatta orie/italis, Male and Female. 



in apparent size and strength, and kept them in a 

 glass for forty hours, yet the same result precisely 



