A. P. Morse.
The European House Cricket; Hearth Cricket.
Psyche 29(5-6):225-226, 1922.

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19221 Some Parasitic Hymenoptera from New Zealand 225 the pronotum visible medially; scutellum large, as broad as the mesonotum, the basal suture not impressed nor foveate. Pro- podeum very short, twice as high as long, its spines curve back- wards, with the median one set somewhat forward of the lateral ones. Pro-and mesopleurge smooth and polished; metapleura and sides of propodeum rugose, with several more or less regular oblique carinae extending downwards and backwards. Petiole finely longitudinally rugose-striate, narrower at base and apex. Gaster about three times as broad as the head or thorax. The hairs on the body are denser on the petiole, propodeum and base of abdomen, and entirely absent on the pro- and mesopleurse. Tarsal claws stout, simple; tibia1 spurs minute; hairs on femora very sparse, those of the tibiae conspicuous. Type from Dun Mountain, New Zealand, at an altitude of 2000 feet, March 15, 1921 (A. Philpott). THE EUROPEAN HOUSE CRICKET; HEARTH
CRICKET.
BY A. P. MORSE, Peabody Museum of Salem. This cricket, in the winter of 1920, became a nuisance in a dwelling at Swampscott, Mass., damaging clothing in the base- ment laundry and annoying by its persistent chirping (recorded inmy manual of N. E. Orth., p. 393), but shortly after disap- peared and is not now found there.
On Oct. 16, 1922,I captured an adult male in an open pasture at Marblehead, Mass., several miles away. No others were seen. Curiously enough, in connection with the fireside association of the species, tho probably without definite significance, this spe- cimen was found hiding under a fragment of partly burned board lying on the charcoal of an old bon-fire site. Pu&e 29:225 11922). http //psyche enkliib 011/29/29.225 him1



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