342 TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. 



genus have a tubercular projection on their foreheads, and their 

 elytra are longer than the hind wings ; and the largest kind, 

 Locusta viridissinia, which people in central and northern Europe 

 very improperly call the Cigala, is well known to everybody. 



METAMORPHOSIS OF THE FIEi.D CRICKET. 



In the accompanying engraving the female of this green grass- 

 hopper is laying her eggs in a hole in the ground, and one is just 

 escaping from the ovipositor. A male is flying about, and it will 

 be observed that he has no ovipositor, but that he has very long 

 front wings, with spaces in them just where they join the body, 



