46 PROCEEDINGS MANCHESTER INSTITUTE 



2 Gryllus abbreviatits Serville. 



3 Gryllus liictnosiis Serville. 



4 Neinobius fasciatus De Geer. 



5 Qj^cantlius niveiis Serville. 



G. borealis is rare, but several individuals have been found near 

 an artificial pond at Manchester Centre. 



G. luctiiosiis is G. niger Harris or G. neglectus Scudder. 



Both varieties of N. fasciatus occur. In one the wings are want- 

 ing, and the wing-covers extend half the length of the abdomen ; 

 in the other the wings are long and cordate, reaching the tip of 

 the ovipositor in the female, and the wing-covers nearly equal 

 the abdomen. 



(2i. niveus is generally distributed. 



The poetry of earth is never dead. 



When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, 

 And hide in cooling trees, the voice will run 



From hedge to hedge about the new mown mead. 

 That is the Grasshopper's — he takes the lead 



In summer luxury — he has never done 

 With his delights ; for when tired out with fun 



He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. 



The poetry of earth is ceasing never. 



On a' lone winter evening when the frost 

 Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills 



The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever. 

 And seems to one in drowsiness half lost, 



The Grasshopper among some grassy hills. 



— Keats. 



