harrows, rollers, and cultivators will be effective here. The adult grasshoppers must for the most part be destroyed with fire. [Heaps of straw and brushwood are soaked with paraffin and then set on fire.] The =Mole Cricket= (_Gryllotalpa vulgaris_). Body stout and flattened. Antennæ, palps, and tail-filaments very long. Fore legs broad, modified into true “digging legs,” superficially resembling the feet of a mole. Fore wings broad, but short, leathery. In a state of rest, the hind wings lie on the back, like a couple of tails. Colour dark brown. Principally occurs on peaty soils mixed with sand or clay, also on all soils which have become of firm consistency by the application of much manure. Their presence is therefore local. Very early in the year the mole-cricket leaves its winter hiding-place, and begins to make its passages near the surface. Where the female makes her nest the passage turns downward a little. The nest is 1⅗ of an inch in diameter, and its walls are compacted by the pressure of the hard body. The number of eggs is from 200 to 250; they are laid in lots with a few intermediate spaces. The young creep out in the spring, and are wingless. To begin with, they are white, but quickly become brown. The mother guards her young very carefully. These grow tolerably fast, and first begin to lead an independent life after the second moult. In October and November they undergo a third moult. Then, still in a wingless condition, they hide themselves, and do not moult again till April or May, when the wing-cases appear; while after the fifth moult (May, June) the mole-cricket becomes an adult insect, capable of reproducing. This insect is found in cornfields, gardens, grassland, and meadows, also in orchards and woods. It gnaws the roots of all kinds of plants, and often effects great damage in this way. The mole-cricket is also harmful on account of its passages, which are dug close to the surface. In this way it lifts young plants out of the soil; while older plants are killed, both by its gnawing and by its digging. Such plants can often be pulled up by grasping the leaves. All the plants wither in the place where the nest is found. Dry, cold winters kill almost all the mole-crickets; much drought in summer and also continuous wet are unfavourable to them. _Enemies_: moles, rooks, etc., butcher-birds, starlings, and the larger ground beetles. _Remedies_: Destruction of the nests, in June, to begin with, but also to be continued later. In those parts of a field where the plants are yellow or withered in a large circular patch (some 39 inches in diameter) the nest is felt for with the finger, and carefully lifted up, so that the eggs do not fall out. Mole-crickets can also be caught by means of flower-pots. The apertures in the bottoms of these are stopped with corks, and they are then sunk in the soil with their mouths on a level with the mole-cricket passages;