STRAIGHT WINGS. 71 



Siug the livelong night in summer ; 



Some are housed in banks and hedgerows, 



Some in caverns subterranean, 



Some are homed in all our houses. 



Chirruping upon our hearth stones, 



To the superstitious boding 



Good or evil as they fancy. 



Their antennae long and slender, 



Threadlike, too, and manyjointed ; 



Their fore wings are short and leathery. 



Folding over one another ; 



Their hind wings are folded fanlike, 



And project beyond the fore wings, 



Often curling at the summit ; 



Hind thighs thick, and formed for leaping, 



And their feet are all threejointed. 



Grasshoppers are one with Locusts, 

 But we must a tribe determine 

 Somewhat differing from the Crickets, 

 Somewhat differing from the Locusts, 

 A tribe we may call Gryllina ; 

 Their antennae manyjointed, 

 Long and tapering as in Crickets, 

 But their fore wings straight and lengthened. 

 Stretching out beyond the hind wings, 

 Meeting vertically rooflike ; 

 Hind wings always folded lengthwise ; 

 Hiud thighs thick, and formed for leaping ; 



