TRANSLATOR'S NOTE 



I HAVE ventured in the present volume 

 to gather together, under the somewhat 

 loose and inaccurate title of The Life of the 

 Grasshopper, the essays scattered over the 

 Souvenirs entomologiques that treat of 

 Grasshoppers, Crickets, Locusts and such in- 

 sects as the Cicada, or Cigale, the Mantis 

 and the Cuckoo-spit, or, to adopt the author's 

 happier and more euphonious term, the 

 Foamy Cicadella. They exhaust the num- 

 ber of the orthopterous and homopterous 

 insects discussed by Henri Fabre. 



Chapters I. to VIIL, XV., XVI. and XIX. 

 have already appeared, in certain cases under 

 different titles and partly in an abbreviated 

 form, in an interesting miscellany extracted 

 from the Souvenirs, translated by Mr. Ber- 

 nard Miall and published by the Century 

 Company. This volume, Social Life in the 

 Insect World, is illustrated with admirable 

 photographs of insects, taken from life, and 

 deserves a prominent place on the shelves of 

 every lover of Fabre's works, 

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