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and zigzag, and when pursued they will take to the lower branches of trees, 

 especially oaks if near by. The males sing somewhat in daytime as well 

 as at night, and have different calls for the two times. The females lay 

 their eggs in the edges of leaves, thrusting them in between the upper and 

 lower cuticle by means of their flattened and pointed ovipositor. 



While almost all katydids are green, a few exceptions are known. 

 Scudder has found certain pink individuals belonging to a species normally 

 green. In mountain regions a few species of gray- or granite-colored katy- 



FIG. 207. The sword-bearer, Conocephalus ensiger, female. (After Lugger; nat. size.) 



dids are known, the color here being quite as protective as the green of the 

 lowland forms, for these mountain species alight to rest on the granite rocks 

 of the mountainside. I have found these granite katydids in the Sierra 

 Nevada of California. 



FIG. 208. FIG. 209. 



FIG. 208. The sword-bearer, Conocephalus ensiger, male. (After Lugger; nat. size.) 

 FIG. 209. A common meadow grasshopper, Orchelimum vulgare, female. (After 

 Lugger; natural size indicated by line.) 



The meadow grasshoppers are small, katydid-like Locustids, green and 

 long- winged, with long, slender hind legs and with the characteristic slender 

 thread-like antennae longer than the body. These antennae readily distinguish 

 them from any of the locusts (Acridiidae) which may be found in their com- 

 pany. The meadow green grasshoppers abound in pastures and meadows, 



