40 MANDIBULATA. OllTHOPTERA, 



believe not towards the north ; on the continent it does not occur 

 beyond the latitude of York : it is found in June and July, fre- 

 quenting holes in dry soils, the male making a very loud chirping 

 by day as well as by night. 



Sp. 2. sylvestris. Apterus, ochreo-ferrugineus, capite atro orbitis maculaque 

 frontali ochreis, thoracis disco pallido minutim nigro punctata, elytris brevis- 

 simis piceis. (Long. corp. 9 — 11 lin.) 



Ac. sylvestris. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 303. No. 3349. — Curtis, v. vii. pi. 293. 



Apterous ; rusty-ochreous ; head black, shining, with the orbits of the eyes 

 and a patch on the face pale tawny, or ochreous ; thorax black, slightly 

 pilose, the disc spotted with black ; elytra about two-thirds the length of 

 the abdomen, pitchy, with the principal nervure and the base pale; abdomen 

 black, with two pilose styles at the apex ; legs variegated with black. 



Female with the elytra very short, dirty-ochreous, with the sides and nervures 

 pitchy. 



I obtained this insect above twenty years since from Mr. D. Byd- 

 der, who discovered it in the New Forest, in the vicinity of Lynd- 

 hurst, the second year that he found the indigenous Cicada ; since 

 that period it has been again found in the same neighbourhood, and 

 I obtained many specimens from a collector, whom I employed in 

 the years 1820 and 1821, from the vicinity of Brockenhurst; also in 

 the New Forest. 



Sp. 3. domesticus. Cinereo-glaucus, glaber, thorace postice truncato, alis elytris 

 longioribus. (Long. corp. 9 — 14 lin.) 



Gryl. domesticus. Linnc. — Donovan, v. xi. pi. 409. — Ac. domesticus. Steph. 

 Catal. 303. No. 3350. 



Shining glaucous ash, scarcely tomentose ; head pitchy-black, very glossy, 

 with whitish transverse lines ; thorax truncate in front and behind, with a 

 fine dorsal channel ; the disc slightly pilose, and with three triangular 

 blackish spots ; elytra scarcely so long as the abdomen, in the male with a 

 large pellucid space, in which the nervures run very irregularly, the apex 

 alone reticulated as usual, as the entire Jisc is in the female; wings 

 whitish, with the costa and a streak near the apex brownish ; abdominal 

 styles pale and pilose ; ovipositor of the female about half the length of the 

 body, somewhat clavate at the apex; legs pilose; posterior femora very 

 glossy within. 



This, which is the " domestic crickef that most persons have 

 heard, though few have seen, occurs in plenty in kitchens, bake- 

 houses, and in other warm situations, existing positively within a few 

 inches of the fiercest domestic fires ; it is very impatient of cold ; is 



