Then, of a sudden, begins a new strophe, a monotonous repetition of the first; and so on indefinitely.
It often happens, especially during the hours of the sultry afternoons, that the insect, intoxicated with sunlight, shortens and even suppresses the intervals of silence.

The song is then continuous, but always with an alternation of crescendo and diminuendo.

The first notes are heard about seven or eight o'clock in the morning, and the orchestra ceases only when the twilight fails, about eight o'clock at night.

The concert lasts a whole round of the clock.

But if the sky is grey and the wind chilly the Cigale is silent.
The second species, only half the size of the common Cigale, is known in Provence as the _Cacan_; the name, being a fairly exact imitation of the sound emitted by the insect.