Q5# NATURAL HISTORY. 
It resembles a leaf both in shape and color, and the 
wings have even the veinings of a leaf. 
444, The family of Saltatoria, or Jumpers, is a very 
extensive one. It comprises the Crickets, the Grass- 
hoppers, and the Locusts. The Crickets are so well 
known to you that I need not describe them. They are 
mostly inhabitants of the ground, in which many of them 
burrow. One spe- 
cies, the Mole Crick- 
et, Figure 202, is so 
named because its 
anterior extremities, 
and its general habits 
also, are similar to 
those of the Mole. 
It is a great digger. 
The female forms, in 
connection with its burrow, a smooth, round cell, which, 
with the passage leading to it, resembles a bottle with a 
long bent neck. Here it deposits from two to four hund- 
red eggs. The Tree Cricket, Fig. 
203, is a very delicate insect. Its 
color is pale ivory; its antenne and 
legs are very long, and its wing- 
covers are thin, and are prettily or- 
namented with three oblique raised 
lines. Its familiar shrill sound is pro- 
duced only by the male Cricket, by 
raising up the wing-covers and rub- 
bing them together. These differ 
decidedly from the other members 
of the Cricket tribe in living wholly 
on trees. The female deposits her 
egos in the autumn, in incisions which 
she makes in the branches, and they are hatched in the 
following summer, the young Crickets obtaining their 
perfect state with us in August. 
Fig. 202.—The Mole Cricket. 
Fig. 203.—-Tree Cricket. 
