898 NOISES OF INSECTS. 
thing that is rural, verdurous, and joyous.” One of 
these crickets, when confined in a paper cage and set in 
the sun, and supplied with plants moistened with water 
—for if they are not wetted it will die—will feed, and 
thrive, and become so merry and loud, as to be irksome 
in the same room where a person is sitting *. 
Having never seen a female of that extraordinary 
animal the mole-cricket (Gryllotalpa vulgaris, Latr.), I 
cannot say what difference obtains in the reticulation of 
the elytra of the two sexes. ‘The male varies in this 
respect from the other male crickets, for they have no 
circular area, nor do the nervures run so irregularly; 
the areolets, however, toward their base are large, with 
very tense membrane. ‘The base itself also is scarcely 
at all elevated. Circumstances these, which demonstrate 
the propriety of considering them distinct from the other 
crickets. This creature is not however mute. Where 
they abound they may be heard about the middle of 
April singing their love-ditty in a low, dull, jarring, 
uninterrupted note, not unlike that of the goat-sucker 
(Caprimulgus europeus, L.), but more inward’. I re- 
member once tracing one by its shrilling to the very 
hole, under a stone, in the bank of my canal, in which 
it was concealed. 
Another tribe of grasshoppers (Locusta, F.)—the fe- 
males of which are distinguished by their long ensiform 
ovipositor—like the crickets, make their noise by the 
friction of the base of their elytra. And the chirping 
they thus produce is long, and seldom interrupted, which 
distinguishes it from that of the common grasshoppers 
(Gryllus, F.). What is remarkable, the grasshopper 
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