. The living world : containing descriptions of the several races of men, and all species of animals, birds, fishes, insects, etc., etc. : with numerous anecdotes, illustrative of their instincts, reasoning powers and domestic habits . f day, it appears to be ina state of torpor. This insect reminds one of the owl, among birds, notonly from its habit of avoiding the light, but also from its monotonous song,which the vulgar consider—one docs not know why — a foreboding of ill-luckto the house in which it is heard. Formerly this singular prejudice wasmuch deeper rooted than it is at present. The
. The living world : containing descriptions of the several races of men, and all species of animals, birds, fishes, insects, etc., etc. : with numerous anecdotes, illustrative of their instincts, reasoning powers and domestic habits . f day, it appears to be ina state of torpor. This insect reminds one of the owl, among birds, notonly from its habit of avoiding the light, but also from its monotonous song,which the vulgar consider—one docs not know why — a foreboding of ill-luckto the house in which it is heard. Formerly this singular prejudice wasmuch deeper rooted than it is at present. The song of the cricket has merelythe object of calling the female. G. Sylvestris.—Cricket of the Woods. This insect is much smallerthan the above, and is met with in great numbers in the woods, where itsleaps sometimes produce the noise of drops of rain. G. Vulgaris.—■ The Mole Cricket. This species is an inch and a halfLing, and of a brown color. These crickets are distinguished from all otherinsects by the structure of their fore legs, which are wide and indented insuch a manner as to resemble a hand, analogous to that of the mole. Thishand betrays its habits much better than our hands betray ours. One need ENTOMOLOGY. LEUCIPPF. B( ISTON, SAMUEL WALKER .«.- CO ORDER VI. ORTIIOPTERA. — MOLE CRICKET. 297 not be much of a fortune-teller to read on it its digging habits. They makeuse of their hands, indeed, as spades, with which they hollow out subter-ranean galleries, and accumulate at the side of the entrance-hole the rubbishthus drawn. Their French name comes from the old French word courtil/e,which means garden. It reminds one that these are the favorite haunts ofthese destructive insects. If the Mole Crickets have spades to their front legs, their hind legs arevery little developed, so that it would be perfectly impossible for them tojump, particularly as their large abdomen would hinder their so doing. Thewings are broad, and fold back in the form of a fan
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