Cicada, Harvest-Fly, "Locust' 



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leaking through the crevices of the insect's body 

 or whether it is something which tlie insect itself 

 produces for the sake of concealment, but I agree 

 with everybody else when they claim that the leaf- 

 hoppers are the funniest things to be found among 

 the insect tribes. The leaf-hoppers or tree-hoppers 



Funny Hoppers. 



are the sort of bugs which could appropriately in- 

 habit a " bug-house " for they are certainly a crazy 

 looking lot (Fig. 260-264). 



CICVDA, H.UnT:ST-FLY, " LOCUST " 



Here we are again, up against a common and 

 almost universal name for tliis well-known insect, 

 to which it has no right at all because the locusts, 



