CHAPTER VII.

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.