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the pronotum visible medially; scutellum large, as broad as the 
mesonotmn, the basal suture not impressed nor foveate. Pro- 
podeum very short, twice as high as long, its spines curve back- 
wards, with the median one set somewhat forward of the lateral 
ones. Pro-and mesopleurse smooth and polished; metapleura 
and sides of propodeum rugose, with several more or less regular 
oblique carinse extending downwards and backwards. Petiole 
finely longitudinally rugose-striate, narrower at base and apex. 
Gaster about three times as broad as the head or thorax. The 
hairs on the body are denser on the petiole, propodeum and base 
of abdomen, and entirely absent on the pro- and mesopleurse. 
Tarsal claws stout, simple; tibial spurs minute; hairs on femora 
very sparse, those of the tibiae conspicuous. 
Type from Dun Mountain, New Zealand, at an altitude of 
2000 feet, March 15, 1921 (A. Philpott). 
THE EUROPEAN HOUSE CRICKET; HEARTH 
CRICKET. 
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By A. P. Morse, Peabody Museum of Salem. 
This cricket, in the winter of 1920, became a nuisance in a 
dwelling at Swampscott, Mass., damaging clothing in the base- 
ment laundry and annoying by its persistent chirping (recorded 
in my manual of N. E. Orth., p. 393), but shortly after disap- 
peared and is not now found there. 
On Oct. 16, 1922, I captured an adult male in an open pasture 
at Marblehead, Mass., several miles away. No others were seen. 
Curiously enough, in connection with the fireside association of 
the species, tho probably without definite significance, this spe- 
cimen was found hiding under a fragment of partly burned board 
lying on the charcoal of an old bon-fire site. 
