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 stercorarius). 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 tke foreign Cicada, or Tree-hopper, of 

 musical celebrity. 



INSECT MINSTRELSY. 



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 



