392 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Pronotum 
Tegmina Hind femora 
Ovipositor 
Wide Long 
5 3 
11 10 
4.5 3 
10 11 
11 mm. 
Both short-winged and long-winged examples are known in 
this species; in the former the wings are covered by the tegmina, 
in the latter they are exposed for nearly half an inch. 
Color: pale yellowish brown, marked with brownish and black- 
ish on the head, pronotum, and tegmina. Eyes dark brown; 
blackish bars across occiput, between eyes, between bases of 
antennae, and along upper part of lateral lobes of pronotum; 
top of pronotum mostly dark brown, with yellowish on front 
margin and sides. 
Measurements. 
Body 
Male 17 
Female 16 
The European House-cricket, the "Cricket on the hearth," is 
a less robust species than our Field-cricket and is readily dis- 
tinguished by its yellowish color and char- 
acteristic markings. It has been introduced 
into several of the southern and central 
States, has been taken in New York not 
far from the Connecticut line, and has 
recently been recorded in numbers from 
Shelton, Ct. (M. P. Zappe, Bull. 211, Ct. 
Agric. Exp. Sta., p. 313-316, 1919), from 
which the following statements are quoted 
nearly verbatim. 
"It was living in the attic of a new house 
and annoying the occupants [July 29, 1918] 
by its nightly chirping and by getting into 
the food in the pantry on the floor below. 
. . . There were great numbers of crickets 
in the attic, with considerable old clothing 
stored there, some of which had been eaten 
into by the crickets. During the day they 
were in hiding and comfortably quiet, but 
at night they chirped incessantly." There 
were two rooms in the attic, a sleeping room and a store room. 
A crookneck squash in the storeroom had its entire inside, seeds, 
pulp and all, eaten out by the Crickets. A great number of them 
Fig. 65. — European 
House-cricket, Gryllus do- 
mesticus. Female. (After 
Lugger.) 
