CHAPTER II. 



THE CRICKET. 



1. Examine the cricket as you did the grasshopper. 

 See the body divisions, head, antennae, eyes, ocelli, 

 labrum, labium, labial palpi, mandibles, maxillae, 

 maxillary palpi, thorax, wings, legs, coxa, femur, 

 tibia, tarsus, abdomen, and spiracles. 



2. Find the ear, which is on the tibia of the fore leg. 



3. Find the stylets, which are at the end of the , 

 abdomen. 



4. If your specimen is a female, notice the long, 

 slender ovipositor, between the stylets. Of how many 

 parts is it composed? Why is this ovipositor so differ- 

 ent from that of the grasshopper? 



5. Study the spiracles. How many? 



6. If your specimen is a male, look on the under 

 side of the outer wing for a large cross-vein. Can 

 you find teeth upon it? "With this the cricket makes 

 his chirping noise. 



7. Can a cricket fly? Some kinds have the inner 

 wings very small. 



Additional Facts About the Cricket. 



The cricket is black, or dark brown, and lives in 

 dark places, goming out only at night. It is therefore 

 protectively colored. The antennae are very much 

 longer and more slender than are the antennae of the 

 grasshopper, and probably in its dark crevice the 

 cricket must depend upon his sense of feeling more 



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