THE INSECTS OF THE GREEN LANES. 201 



Should you ramble down one of our green lanes 

 before breakfast, it is more than likely you may 

 come across an object worthy of your regard, in the 

 person of the Great Green Grasshopper (Gryllus 

 viridissimus). Here, the popular name is in error, 

 for the insect is more nearly allied to the crickets 



Fig. 146. 



Great Saw-Fly. 



than to the grasshoppers. Anyhow, it is an in- 

 teresting insect, although its bright fresh green 

 colour, when it is settled on a long blade of grass, 

 renders it difficult of detection. This, too, has a 

 formidable, sword-blade-like ovipositor, which is 

 often a source of alarm to people who know nothing 

 of its habits. You may hear the calls of this iusect 



