THE WORKS OF J. H. FABRE THE LIFE OF THE GRASSHOPPER BY J. HENRI FABRE Translated by ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS, F.Z.S. HODDER AND STOUGHTON LIMITED LONDON CONTENTS PAGE 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 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 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.