CONTENTS. XI 



28. BUSINESS AND PLEASURE. 



Bees in their transformations, or the two preparatory stages of grub or larva, 

 nymph or pupa, the latter nearest to the centre of the board. To the right 

 is a piece of honeycomb, with cells of the common form, with a royal or 

 Queen's chamber attached, as most usually, to its outer edge. The two bees 

 on wing are workers 192 



' Heedless of Business and of Pleasure" 



with her garland, Business with her cart 

 raise the drowsy Drone from his luxurious rose-leaf pillow . . . 213 



Pleasure with her garland, Business with her cart-rope, try, equally in vain, to 



29. INSECT MINSTRELSY. 



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

 Green Grasshopper (GrryWus viridissinws). Above it, in descending flight, 

 is the common Dor or Clock Beetle (G-eotrupes 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 Grasshopper 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 214 



" The classic Cicada, tJie grassy Gryllus^ and the deep-toned Dor" 

 A musical trio composed of the above 227 



30. MOTHS AS OPERATIVES. 



Conspicuous in the foreground is the " Carpenter " Caterpillar of the great 

 Goat Moth (Cossiis ligniperda\ issuing from its woody cocoon in the hollow 

 of an oak. Various Moth Caterpillars of those called " Tent-makers " 

 (Tineidce), perambulate, under cover of their portable pavilions, the oak- 

 leaf, just over the "Carpenter's " cocoon. Above that, hangs another oak- 

 leaf, cut and rolled by some caterpillar in form of a barrel button. The 



