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muscles of the arms in digging. The arms them- 

 selves are strong and broad, and the hand is furnished 

 with four large sharp claws, pointing somewhat ob- 

 liquely outwards, this being the direction in which 

 it digs, throwing the earth on each side of its course. 

 So strongly, indeed, does it throw out its arms, that 

 we find it can thus easily support its own weight 

 when held between the finger and thumb, as we have 

 tried upon half a dozen of the living insects now in 

 our possession. 



The Mote Cricket^ with a separate outline of one of its hands. 



The nest which the female constructs for her eggs, 

 in the beginning of May, is well worthy of attention. 

 The Rev. Mr. White, of Selborne, tells us that a 

 gardener, at a house where he was on a visit, while 

 mowing grass by the side of a canal, chanced to 

 strike his scythe too deep, and pared off a large piece 

 of turf, laying open to view an interesting scene of 

 domestic economy. There was a pretty chamber dug 

 in the clay, of the form and about the dimensions it 



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