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| [TRANSLATOR’S NOTE] | vii |
| CHAPTER | | |
| I | [THE FABLE OF THE CICADA AND THE ANT] | 1 |
| II | [THE CICADA: LEAVING THE BURROW] | 25 |
| III | [THE CICADA: THE TRANSFORMATION] | 42 |
| IV | [THE CICADA: HIS MUSIC] | 58 |
| V | [THE CICADA: THE LAYING AND THE HATCHING OF THE EGGS] | 82 |
| VI | [THE MANTIS: HER HUNTING] | 113 |
| VII | [THE MANTIS: HER LOVE-MAKING] | 137 |
| VIII | [THE MANTIS: HER NEST] | 147 |
| IX | [THE MANTIS: HER HATCHING] | 170 |
| X | [THE EMPUSA] | 191 |
| XI | [THE WHITE-FACED DECTICUS: HIS HABITS] [[vi]] | 211 |
| XII | [THE WHITE-FACED DECTICUS: THE LAYING AND THE HATCHING OF THE EGGS] | 231 |
| XIII | [THE WHITE-FACED DECTICUS: THE INSTRUMENT OF SOUND] | 246 |
| XIV | [THE GREEN GRASSHOPPER] | 275 |
| XV | [THE CRICKET: THE BURROW; THE EGG] | 300 |
| XVI | [THE CRICKET: THE SONG; THE PAIRING] | 327 |
| XVII | [THE LOCUSTS: THEIR FUNCTION; THEIR ORGAN OF SOUND] | 354 |
| XVIII | [THE LOCUSTS: THEIR EGGS] | 378 |
| XIX | [THE LOCUSTS: THE LAST MOULT] | 401 |
| XX | [THE FOAMY CICADELLA] | 424 |
| [INDEX] | 447 |