The insects in this vignette are of the allied families Achetidae, Gryllida;, 

 and LocustidtB. On the bank, beside its nest-hole, is a Field Cricket (Acheta 

 campestris). On the clover-leaves opposite sits a female grasshopper (Gryllus), 

 with her sword-shaped ovipositor. Ascending the grass above is one of the 

 small green Locttstida, common in damp meadows ; and flying upwards in tho 

 centre is the Acridium (or Locusta) gubulatum, a species with very small 

 elytra, figured in Curtis's " British Entomology." 



LOVERS OF PLEASURE. 



IFFERENT nations would seem to have as op- 

 posite ideas about happiness as about beauty. 

 The Japanese, for instance, have selected that 

 half-dead liver of centuries, the tortoise, to 

 figure their idea of perfect enjoyment, while 

 a Grecian poet chose the grasshopper, so eminently a creature 

 of life, living through every hour of its single summer, as a 



