422 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Pygmy Mole-crickets live on and in the damp sand on the shores 
of ponds and streams. They are inconspicuous little creatures, 
not likely to be noticed unless captured in the sweep-net or when 
their presence is betrayed by the ridges thrown up during their 
subterranean tunneHngs. They may be seen rarely on the surface 
of the ground or at the entrance of the burrow, but are extremely 
active and alert and disappear almost instantaneously, with 
prodigious leaps. Blatchley says that they often leap to a height 
of five feet and a distance twice as great. 
This species has been reported from Connecticut, and from 
Cambridge, Winchester, and Nantucket, Massachusetts. At the 
last locality I have found adults numerous on July 13; a few 
nymphs on the same date and September 10. 
