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were hiding between the rafters, roof-boards and shingles. They 
gnawed into the wood, and the floor was covered with bits 
of chewed wood. 
"At night they came downstairs and got into the pantry 
where they ate into all sorts of food that they could get 
at. They seemed to be particularly fond of bananas. A few 
could be found in the daytime in the drawers in the pantry, 
in the flour, etc., and were as much of a pest as cock- 
roaches. . . . 
"It is hard to understand just where these crickets came 
from, unless they had been present in the office of a large 
garage next door, and from there had entered this residence. 
None of the other houses in the immediate neighborhood had 
been troubled with this pest." 
To destroy them two kinds of poisoned bait were used: (1) 
potato flour soiled by the Crickets, | lb.; borax, ^ lb.; one mashed 
ripe banana. This was all mixed together and enough water 
added to make a thin paste. (2) Bichloride of mercury, 1 tablet 
dissolved in ^ cupful of water; this was added to a cupful of 
flour. The skin of a banana was cut up into small pieces and put 
into the bait. Two days later all of the poisoned bait had been 
eaten, a few Crickets were still alive but succumbed to con- 
tinued treatment. It is not known which bait w-as preferred. 
This insect usually occurs on the ground floor of houses or 
bakeries in the vicinity of warmth, sometimes burrowing into the 
mortar of the walls. It is active and musical, chiefly at night, 
even in winter.^ 
Striped Grass-cricket. 
Nemobius fasciatus (DeGeer). 
Plate 16, figs. 3, 4. 
Gryllus fasciatus DeGeer, M(5m. Hist. Ins., vol. 3, p. 522 (1773). 
Acheta vittata Harris, Treatise, 3d ed., p. 153 (1862). 
Nemobius exiguus Scudder, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, p. 429 
(1862). 
Nemobius vittatixs Scudder, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, p. 430 (1862). — 
Smith, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 144 (1869); Rept. Ct. Bd. 
Agric. for 1872, p. 353 (1873). 
Nemobius fasciatus Scudder, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, p. 430 (1862). 
—Smith, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 144 (1868); Rept. Ct. 
1 Several adults and one half -grown nymph were captured in a house at 
Swampscott, Mass., February 22, 1920. 
