Manual of the Orthoptera of New England; including the locusts, grasshoppers, crickets, and their allies

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...13 mm. This species was first reported from North America (Minneapolis, Minn.) by Scudder under this name, and later from Chicago by me as D. unicolor; it has also been recorded from many places in Europe by Chopard as the Tachycines asynamorus of Adelung. I am informed by Hebard, who has recently gone into the matter, that the species should be called D. marmorata though the characters stated by Brunner in his monograph point toward D. unicolor. This insect is a native of eastern Asia, and was probably introduced into this country and Europe with importations of plants and bulbs among the wrappings of which it would be likely to hide itself and able to travel long distances. It is a rather large, slenderly built Cave-cricket with extremely long and delicate antennae, palpi, and hind legs, in color daintily Fio. 59.--Asiatic or Conservatory Camel-cricket, Dieetrammena marmorata, male. (After Lugger.) varied with dark markings on a pale background. It lives in greenhouses, conservatories and cellars, hiding by day beneath boards and boxes and in sheltered corners, becoming more active at night. I have seen as many as a hundred individuals of various ages resting within a space of four square feet on the wall of a greenhouse coal-bin, perfectly quiet save for the occasional waving motion of the long antennae. Unlike Roaches, it does not crawl into narrow crevices or beneath boards or boxes lying close to the ground, but requires considerable space to provide for free movement of the long legs and antennae. When disturbed, it makes prodigious leaps, sometimes two or three in succession, alighting with a thump. Though alert, it is easily captured, provided the waving, hair-trigger sensitive antennae are not inadvertently touched, when response is instantaneous....