ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS—No. 2.: The Northern Mole-Cricket (Gryllotalpa borealis, Burm.)

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Anyone finding the strange-looking insect shown at fig.1 will at once recognize it as the Northern Mole cricket. It is apparently an uncommon insect in Canada, and it is partly to ascertain from the readers of the Canadian Entomologist whether or not this is the case that I am writing these notes upon a specimen which I have had in confinement for some months. I have been trying for years to get living speciments, but only succeeded last autumn when I had a fine female sent to me by Mr. W. W. Hilborn, who had caught it in his garden at Leamington, in Essex County, Ont.