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that got possession of the chinks seized on all the 

 others that were ohtruded upon him with his large 

 row of serrated fangs. With their strong jaws toothed 

 like the shears of a lobster's claws, they perforate and 

 round their curious regular cells, having no foreclaws 

 to dig with like the mole-cricket. When taken into 

 the hand, they never attempt to defend themselves, 

 though armed with such formidable weapons. Of 

 such herbs as grow about the mouths of their burrows 

 they eat indiscriminately, and never in the day-time 

 seem to stir more than two or three inches from home. 

 Sitting in the entrance of their caverns, they chirp all 

 night as well as day, from the middle of the month 

 of May to the middle of July. In hot weather, when 

 they are most vigorous, they make the hills echo, 



Acritfa verntrwuni depositing licr eijtja. 

 The usual position of the ovipositor is represented by (lots. 



