CONTENTS. Xlll 



28. BUSINESS AND PLEASURE. 



Bees in their transformations, or the two preparatory stages of grub or larva, 

 nymph or pupa, the latter nearest to the centre of the board. To the 

 right is a piece of honeycomb, with cells of the common form, with a 

 royal or Queen's chamber attached, as most usually, to its outer edge. 

 The two bees on wing are workers 192 



" Heedless of Business and of Pleasure." 



Pleasure with her garland, Business with her cart-rope, try, equally in vain, 

 to raise the drowsy Drone from his luxurious rose-leaf pillow 213 



29. INSECT MINSTRELSY. 



The central and largest insect in this summer's evening group, is the great 

 Green Grasshopper (Grylhis mridissimus) . Above it, in descending flight, 

 is the common Dor or Clock Beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius). Towards 

 the left, rising on the wing, is a Cuckoo-spit Froghopper (Cicada 

 spumaria], of which another is traversing the leaf of sorrel dock below. 

 A larva of the same insect occupies a leaf of clover in the foreground, 

 and on the sorrel behind the Grasshopper appears a globular patch of 

 the frothy secretion (popularly Cuckoo-spit), wherein the larva of this 

 Froghopper is usually concealed. The Cicada spumaria is not a sound- 

 emitting insect, but is here figured, as resembling in form, and being 

 allied in family with the foreign Cicada, or Tree-hopper, of musical 

 celebrity 214 



" The classic Cicada, the grassy GrijUus, and the deep-toned Dor." 

 A musical trio composed of the above 227 



30. MOTHS AS OPERATIVES. 



Conspicuous in the foreground is the " Carpenter " Caterpillar of the great 

 Goat Moth (Cossus ligniperda], issuing from its woody cocoon in the 

 hollow of au oak. Various Moth Caterpillars of those called " Tent- 

 makers " (Tineidce], perambulate, under cover of their portable pavilions, 

 the oak-leaf, just over the "Carpenter's" cocoon. Above that, hangs 

 another oak-leaf, cut and rolled by some caterpillar in form of a barrel 



