THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 



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PARATENODERA Rehn. 



P. sinensis Sauss. Accidentally introduced at Philadelphia from the 

 Orient, from which parent colony many others have been started, in- 

 tentionally or otherwise. Egg masses were distributed to numerous 

 localities throughout the State, and the insects have been found since 

 at Rutherford, Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Staten Island, Moores- 

 town, Woodbine, Atlantic City and Anglesea. Nowhere have they 

 done so well as at the point of original introduction. 



Family PHASMID^. 



These are the "walking sticks"; odd creatures, two inches or more in 

 length, very slender, with very long antennae and long, slender legs, which 

 they so dispose as to be practically invisible when at rest to all save the 

 trained eye. No wings are developed in our species, which, while it 

 occurs quite generally, and sometimes even abundantly, is never injurious. 

 It feeds on the foliage of a variety of shrubs and trees, and the eggs are 

 simply dropped to the ground at random by the female on the plants. 



DIAPHEROMERA Gray. 



D. femorata Say. Throughout the State, becoming adult VIII and IX, 

 but found until X. Usually rare, but sometimes locally rather plenti- 

 ful. I have had them reported so in Somerset County on peach trees. 

 Mr. Davis writes that it is "partial to hazel bushes and young chest- 

 nut, but found on many other plants. It is not common on the Island, 

 which is probably due to the fact that its eggs lie on the ground 

 over winter and are destroyed by the oft burning of the woodland." 



Family ACRIDIID/E. 

 These are the short-horned grasshoppers, perhaps the most common 



Fig. 76. Illustrates egg-laying of a grasshopper: a, a, females with 

 abdomen inserted in the soil; b, broken egg-pod lying on sur- 

 face; c, individual eggs; d, section of soil showing eggs 

 being placed in position; e, egg-pod completed; 

 f, egg-pod sealed over. 



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