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sponding pauses ; and when the full orchestra were aroused to 

 action by the gathering dusk a bee-like buzz resounded all 

 around, as it were the flutter of the oaten flute and plaintive 

 moan of the sea-shell. When the moon arose and silvered the 

 placid stream of the calm flowing Po they ceased their melody. 

 Similar concerts may be heard in far-distant lands, for I have a 

 nearly related species from the Brazils, and the C. robustus 

 populates the seashore in the southern parts of New England. 

 When the September sunshine enlivens the swamp of Villeneuve, 

 at the head of the Lake of Geneva, the Anisoptera fuscum, a tiny 

 brownish Leaf-Cricket with greenish legs that looks like a big Ear- 

 wig, is wont to clamber up the stem of the reeds with an alternate 

 sway of its long antennae to the purple blossoms, where it sends 

 out its evening challenge to its rivals in a Liliputian pussy-cat 

 purr, or dirl, resembling a bracelet-watch running down, and 

 sometimes, to while the live-long day, it twitters. Another pro- 

 gramme animates the swamp of Villeneuve when the hoar-frost 

 glitters over the reeds, and the skater is out on the ice trying 

 the dance and the rolling Q. 



(To be continued.) 



