This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...CC. Vertex of the head without a conical projection. D. Ovipositor straight, or very nearly so; insect small. 2. Xiphidium. DD. Ovipositor curved; insect large. E. Ovipositor curved sharply upwards. 8. Scudderia. EE. Ovipositor sword-shaped. 3. Orchelimum. In order to facilitate the study of the Locustarians, our ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...CC. Vertex of the head without a conical projection. D. Ovipositor straight, or very nearly so; insect small. 2. Xiphidium. DD. Ovipositor curved; insect large. E. Ovipositor curved sharply upwards. 8. Scudderia. EE. Ovipositor sword-shaped. 3. Orchelimum. In order to facilitate the study of the Locustarians, our common genera can be arranged in four groups; namely, the Cricket-like Grasshoppers, the Meadow Grasshoppers, the Katydids, and the Shield-backed Grasshoppers. I. The Cricket-like Grasshoppers. 1. Ceuthophilus.--To the genus Ceuthophilus belong certain wingless grasshoppers, which bear some resemblance in form to crickets (Fig. 104). They have a short, thick body and remarkably stout hind femora, like a cricket, but are entirely destitute of tegmina and wings. All the species in our collection are either of a pale brown or dirty white color and more or less mottled with either After S. H. Scudder, Boston Journal Natural History, Vol. VII. p. 414. II. The Meadow Grasshoppers. 2. Xiphidium.--From the middle of the summer to the autumn there may be found upon the grass in our meadows and moist pastures many light-green grasshoppers of various sizes. These, on account of the situations in which they are usually found, are termed the meadow grasshoppers. A large proportion of the species belong to the genus Xiphidium. This genus comprises the smaller of our common species. The members of it do not have the head furnished with a conical projection, and the ovipositor of the females is straight and sword-shaped (Fig. 105). We have three common species in the Middle States. In one of them, X. fascidtum, the tegmina and wings are long, extending far beyond the tip of the abdomen. In each of the other species the tegmina and wings are much shortened. X. insi...
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