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ciate together ; but he is mistaken in that 

 assertion, as Linnaeus suspected he was. 

 They are altogether night insects, lucifugcB, 

 never coming forth till the rooms are dark 

 and still, and escaping away nimbly at the 

 approach of a candle. Their antennae are 

 remarkably long, slender, and flexile. 



October 1790. After the servants are 

 gone to bed, the kitchen hearth swarms 

 with young crickets, and young hlattce mo- 

 lendinaricB oi all sizes, from the most minute 

 growth to their full proportions. They 

 seem to live in a friendly manner together, 

 and not to prey the one on the other. 



August 1792. After the destruction of 

 many thousands of blattce molendinarice, we 

 find that at intervals a fresh detachment of 

 old ones arrives, and particularly during 

 this hot season ; for the windows being left 

 open in the evenings, the males come 

 flying in at the casementit* from the neigh- 

 bouring houses, which swarm with them. 

 How the females, that seem to have no 

 perfect wings that they can use, can con- 

 trive to get from house to house, does not 



