Gryllus gryllotalpa is known also in England as the churr-worm, jarr-worm, eve churr, and earth crab. It is, occasionally, very destructive to culinary vegetables ; creeping under ground through holes it digs. It attains a length of two inches, is dark brown, and resembles in most respects the common cricket. Mr. Kollar thus describes its habits :- " The female hollows out a place for herself in the earth, about half a foot from the surface, in the month of June, and lays her eggs in a heap, which often contains from two to three hundred. They are shining yellowish brown, and of the size and shape of a grain of millet. This hollow place is of the shape of a bottle gourd, two inches long, and an inch deep, smooth within, and having on one side a winding communication with the surface of the earth. The young, which are hatched in July or August, greatly resemble black ants, and feed, like the old ones, on the tender roots of grass, corn, and various culinary vegetables. They betray their presence under the earth by the withered decay of culinary vegetables in the garden.

In October and November they bury themselves deeper in the earth, as a protection from' cold, and come again to the surface in the warmer days in March. Their presence is discovered by their throwing up the earth like moles.

" The surest and most efficacious of remedies is, without doubt, destroying the brood in June or July. Practised gardeners know from experience where the nest of the mole cricket is situated ; they dig it out with their spades, ami destroy hundreds in the egg state with little trouble."-Kollar.