BY
J. HENRI FABRE
Translated by
ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS, F.Z.S.

HODDER AND STOUGHTON LIMITED
LONDON

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CONTENTS

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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

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TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

I have ventured in the present volume to gather together, under the somewhat loose and inaccurate title of The Life of the Grasshopper, the essays scattered over the Souvenirs entomologiques that treat of Grasshoppers, Crickets, Locusts and such insects as the Cicada, or Cigale, the Mantis and the Cuckoo-spit, or, to adopt the author’s happier and more euphonious term, the Foamy Cicadella. They exhaust the number of the orthopterous and homopterous insects discussed by Henri Fabre.