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issue from the neighbouring trees, and the groves<br />

resound with the call <strong>of</strong> Katy-did-she- did<br />

the live-long night." Mr. Bates, in speaking <strong>of</strong><br />

the European field- cricket (one <strong>of</strong> the Achetidae),<br />

says "the male has been observed to place<br />

himself in the evening at the entrance <strong>of</strong> his<br />

burrow, and stridulate until a female approaches,<br />

when the louder notes are succeeded by a<br />

more subdued tone, whilst the successful musician<br />

caresses with his antennae the mate he has<br />

won." (31. '<strong>The</strong> Naturalist on the Amazons,' vol.<br />

i. 1863, p. 252. Mr. Bates gives a very interesting<br />

discussion on the gradations in the musical<br />

apparatus <strong>of</strong> the three families. See also Westwood,<br />

'Modern Classification <strong>of</strong> Insects,' vol. ii.<br />

pp. 445 and 453.) Dr. Scudder was able to excite<br />

one <strong>of</strong> these insects to answer him, by rubbing<br />

on a file with a quill. (32. 'Proceedings <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Boston Society <strong>of</strong> Natural History,' vol. xi. April<br />

1868.) In both sexes a remarkable auditory apparatus<br />

has been discovered by Von Siebold,<br />

situated in the front legs. (33. 'Nouveau <strong>Man</strong>uel

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