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and its long delicate wings, which, however, it docs 

 not seem to use except when they are expanded to 

 break the force of its fall from tree branches. The 

 antennae are long and tapering, and my specimen, 

 being a female, possesses an extended ovipositor. 



This species measures from two and a half to 

 three inches from head to tail, and taking into 



THE GREAT GREEN GRASSHOPPER. 



account its size and brilliant colouring, it is perhaps 

 one of the most striking of our British insects. 



Its habits are very dainty, every speck of dust is at 

 once removed from its legs and feet ; the tapering 

 antennae are drawn through its feelers, and they 

 also cleanse the delicate wing-cases. In fact, as one 

 watches all this going on, one is led to wish that all 

 human beings could be persuaded to learn from this 

 lowly creature to perform their toilets as carefully. 



BIRD'S-FOOT TREFOIL (Lotus corniculatus) 



Seeing the sparrows busily feeding upon the seed- 

 pods of the bird's-foot trefoil, which grows much too 

 freely upon my lawn, I have been led to-day to reflect 



