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NATtTEAL HISTORY. 



Fig. "202.— The Mole Cricket. 



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 lumd- 

 red eggs. The Tree Cricket, Fig. 

 203, is a very delicate insect. Its 

 color is pale ivory ; its antennaj 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 Ciickol, by 

 raising up the wing-covers and rub- 

 bing them together. These diflfet 

 decidedly from the other members 

 of the Cricket tribe in living wholly 

 on trees. The fem.ile deposits her 

 eggs 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. '.03.— Tree Cricket. 



