BEETLE MUSICIANS 



August i8tk 



^ . 'HERE is quite a variety of music 

 to be heard in the great sym- 

 phony of insect sounds which 

 fills the summer noon. 

 We all know the cres- 

 cendo of the cicada, or 

 harvest-fly, whizzing its tim- 

 brel in the trees, and the 

 buzzing " zip, zip, 

 * zip, zee-e-e-e " of 

 the meadow grass- 

 hopper (OrcJieli- 

 mum vulgar e) everywhere in 

 the sunny fields, the " zip, zip, 

 zip, zip, zip " of its companion, 

 the comical cone -head grass- 

 hopper (ConocepJialus ensiger), 

 to say nothing of the great 

 orchestra of " high - elbowed 

 grigs" gently fiddling with 

 their long hind legs among the 



grass blades, their wing covers serving as strings and 

 their thighs as fiddle bows. This individual fiddle of 



