CHAPTER VII.. Great and Greatest Among Insects--Our Feeling for Insect

Great and greatest among insects--Our feeling for insect music--Crickets and grasshoppers--Cicada anglica--Locusta viridissima--Character of its music--Colony of green grasshoppers--Harewood Forest--Purple emperor--Grasshoppers' musical contests--The naturalist mocked--Female viridissima--Over-elaboration in the male--Habits of female--Wooing of the male by the female.