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SO readily appear. These, like many in- 

 sects, when they find their present abodes 

 overstocked, have powers of migrating to 

 fresh quarters. Since the hlattce have been 

 so much kept under, the crickets have 

 greatly increased in number. White. 



GRYLLUS DOMESTICUS-HOUSE 

 CRICKET. 



November. After the servants are gone 

 to bed, the kitchen hearth swarms with 

 minute crickets not so large as fleas, which 

 must have been lately hatched. So that 

 these domestic insects, cherished by the 

 influence of a constant large fire, regard 

 not the season of the year, but produce 

 their young at a time when their congeners 

 are either dead, or laid up for the Winter, 

 to pass away the uncomfortable months in 

 the profoundest slumbers, and a state of 

 torpidity. 



When house-crickets are out and run- 

 ning about in a room in the night, if sur- 

 prised by a candle, they give two or three 



