. Natural history. For the use of schools and families. Zoology. Fig. "202.—The Mole Cricket. It resembles a leaf both in shape and color, and the wings have even the veinings of a leaf. 444. The family of Saltatoria, or Jumpers, is a very extensive one. It comprises the Crickets, the Grass- hoppers, and the Locusts. The Crickets are so well known to you that I need not describe them. They are mostly inhabitants of the ground, in which many of them burrow. One spe- cies, the Mole Crick- et, Figure 202, is so named because its anterior extremities, and its general habits also, are similar
. Natural history. For the use of schools and families. Zoology. Fig. "202.—The Mole Cricket. It resembles a leaf both in shape and color, and the wings have even the veinings of a leaf. 444. The family of Saltatoria, or Jumpers, is a very extensive one. It comprises the Crickets, the Grass- hoppers, and the Locusts. The Crickets are so well known to you that I need not describe them. They are mostly inhabitants of the ground, in which many of them burrow. One spe- cies, the Mole Crick- et, Figure 202, is so named because its anterior extremities, and its general habits also, are similar to those of the Mole. ' It is a great digger. The female forms, in connection with its burrow, a smooth, round cell, which, with the passage leading to it, resembles a bottle with a long bent neck. Here it deposits from two to four lumd- red eggs. The Tree Cricket, Fig. 203, is a very delicate insect. Its color is pale ivory; its antennaj and legs are very long, and its wing- covers are thin, and are prettily or- namented with three oblique raised lines. Its familiar shrill sound is pro- duced only by the male Ciickol, by raising up the wing-covers and rub- bing them together. These diflfet decidedly from the other members of the Cricket tribe in living wholly on trees. The deposits her eggs in the autumn, in incisions which she makes in the branches, and they are hatched in the following summer, the young Crickets obtaining their perfect state with us in Fig. '.03.—Tree Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hooker, Worthington, 1806-1867. New York, Harper & Brothers
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