Her behaviour was precisely the same as that of the Decticus, except that her movements were more deliberate.

At the end of twenty-four hours her eggs were apparently all laid.

For greater certainty I waited a couple of days longer.
I then examined the earth in the pot.

The eggs, of a straw-yellow, are cylindrical in form, with rounded ends, and measure about one-tenth of an inch in length.

They are placed singly in the soil, in a perpendicular position.
I have found them over the whole area of the pot, at a depth of a twelfth of an inch.