ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET, 



ACHETA DOMESTICUS. Fabr. 



Gryllus domesticus. Linne. 



House Cricket, 



Pale yellowish brown : head with a pale brown 

 band reaching from eye to' eye, and another at the 

 junction of the thorax : antennas setaceous, longer 

 than the body and of a pale brown : thorax nearly 

 square with darker brown irregular spots : elytra 

 yellowish brown, transparent and shorter than the 

 body : wings folded, and when at rest projecting 

 nearly half the length of the oviduct : legs, the two 

 fore of moderate length, the hinder with the thighs 

 thick and formed for leaping, tibioe armed with strong 

 spines, the tarsi long and simple. 



Length of the body 7 to 8 lines. 



Inhabits new-built houses, kitchens and bakers' 

 ovens. 



We have often observed the house crickets, in the 

 months of July and August, in the evenings, migrat- 

 ing in prodigious numbers, from the Circus in Black- 

 friars Road to the bridge, and from Westminster, on 

 the Surrey side a considerable way down the Lam- 

 beth Road. 



" Tender insects that live abroad (says Mr. White) 

 either enjoy only the short period of one summer, or 

 else doze away the cold uncomfortable months in 

 profound slumbers; but these, residing as it wen in 

 a torrid zone, are always alert and merry ; a good 

 Christmas fire is to them what the heats of th 

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