164 NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS. 



together ! What there is in the sound that is attrac- 

 tive, or why it produces such effect, is more than any 

 one has tried to fathom, but the fact is acknowledged 

 by all, and there are few who will not say with Cow- 

 per — 



" Though in voice and shape they he 

 Formed as if akin to thee, 

 Thou sm-passest, happier far. 

 Happiest Grasshopper that arc. 

 Theirs is hut a summer's song, 

 Thine endures the winter long, 

 Unimpair'd, and shrill, and clear, 

 Melody throughout the year. 



Neither night, nor dawn of day, 

 Puts a period to thy play ; 

 Sing then — and extend thy span 

 Far beyond the date of man. 

 Wretched man, whose years are spent 

 In repining discontent, 

 Lives not, aged though he be, 

 Haifa span, compared with thee." 



The Mole-Cricket, Acheta Gryllotalpa, brevipennis, \a 

 larger than either of the three species, being about two 

 inches long, and distinguished from the others by hav- 

 ing very wide mole-like fore feet, very short wings and 

 short hind legs. Its body is of a grayish color, and its 

 feet are brown. 



From the peculiar construction of its fore feet it 

 may readily be inferred, that it acts in the same man- 

 ner under ground as the mole, and so it does — it feeds 



