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tenth of an inch wide in the broadest part; the head is pointed and pro- 

 jects far forward and upward, the face being very oblique. The wings 

 are short and the body color brown. Comstock found this locust quite 

 common in Florida on the "wire-grass" which grows in the sand among 

 the saw-palmettoes, and "so closely did their brown linear bodies resemble 

 dry grass that it was very difficult to perceive them." So the grotesqueness 

 has its use. 



The subfamily CEdipodinas is well represented in the United States, 



FIG. 181. Hippiscus tigrinus, female. (After Lugger; nat. size indicated by line.) 



containing twenty-four genera and about 140 species. Almost all the familiar 

 locusts with showy colored hind wings belong to this subfamily. One 

 of the commonest species all over the United States and Canada is the 

 Carolina locust, Dissosteira Carolina (Fig. 178), easily recognized by its 

 black hind wings with broad yellow or yellowish-white margin covered with 

 dusky spots at the tip. Its body color is pale yellowish or reddish brown, 

 and it measures 1^-2 inches in length. It flies well; the males have the 

 habit of hovering in the air a few feet above the ground and making a loud 



