138 HEMIPTERA. 
gryllus ; it is divided into several fa- 
milies, and each family contains several 
species ; among which some musical ac- 
quaintances of yours are to be found. 
Lucy, Musical acquaintances ! You 
cannot mean the humming cockchaffers, 
for they are in coleoptera ; perhaps you 
mean the large buzzing flies. 
Mother, No, flies are not in this 
order: I allude to the grasshopper^ 
which sings all day and all night ; and 
to the crickets, which chirp so merrily 
near the fire. This genus is thus de- 
scribed : — Head bent inwards — armed 
with jaws, and furnished with palpi — an- 
tennae, either filiform or setaceous — wings 
folded — hind legs formed for leaping. 
Lucy, I have seen grasshoppers make 
monstrous jumps, when I have tried to 
catch them in the field. 
Mother. The grasshopper, or gryllus 
campestris*, makes its habitation under 
* From Campus, a field. 
