

BEETLE MUSICIANS 



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Atigust 1 8th 



1^0,;;;? 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, \\hizzing its tim- 

 brel in the trees, and the 

 jsp buzzing " zip, zip, 



,./-, f zip, zee-c-e-c " of 

 the meadow grass- 

 hopper (Orcheli- 

 mum vulgare) 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 



