68 TEIBES OF THE 



IX. 



TRIBES OF THE STRAIGHT WINGS. 



Come witli me, and I will tell thee 

 Of the Earwigs, and Cockroaches 

 Vulgarly yclept Blackbeetles ; 

 Crickets, Grasshoppers and Locusts ; 

 These, with Walking Leaves or Spectres, 

 And the praying, fighting Mantis, 

 Constitute a great division, 

 Class Orthoptera intituled. 

 'N^'here the sun beneath the tropics 

 Perpendicularly blazes, 

 There Orthoptera, abounding. 

 Devastate the plain and forest ; 

 In our cold and cloudy island 

 They are small and few in number. 

 Some are wallvers, some are leapers. 



First of walkers come the Earwigs, 

 Earwigs or Forficulina ; 

 Feeding on the lovely petals 

 Of our best and choicest flowers. 

 Hiding in all sorts of crannies 



