The central and largest insect in this summer's evening group is the great 

 Green Grasshopper (Gryllus viridissimus). Above it, in descending flight, is 

 the common Dor or Clock Beetle (Geotrupes ster cor arms). Towards the left, 

 rising on the wing, is a Cuckoo-spit Froghopper (Cicada spumaria), of which 

 another is traversing the leaf of sorrel- dock below. A larva of the same insect 

 occupies a leaf of clover in the foreground, and on the sorrel behind the Grass- 

 hopper appears a globular patch of the frothy secretion (popularly Cuckoo- 

 spit), wherein the larva of this Froghopper is usually concealed. The Cicada 

 spumaria is not a sound-emitting insect, but is here figured, as resembling in 

 form, and being allied in family with the foreign Cicada, or Tree-hopper, of 

 musical celebrity. 



INSECT MINSTRELSY. 



F measured by their influence on the mind, 

 those simple notes of harmony or discord, pro- 

 duced by many of the insect race, are of no 

 mean importance in the scale of sounds, 

 Their power must certainly, however, be at- 

 tributed rather to associate ideas than to any intrinsic excellence 



