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and best known of our insects, jumping or flying up however one turns, 

 among grass or low herbage in roads, fields or meadows. The females 

 have at the end of the abdomen four horny valves, by means of which 

 they lay their eggs in masses in the ground or in soft decaying wood, 

 where they may remain all winter or may hatch in fall. In the latter 

 case the partly grown larvae winter and are sometimes seen on mild days 

 even on the snow. The hind legs are much the longest, developed for 

 jumping, the antennas rarely exceeding and often not equalling half the 

 length of the body. 



Among the grasshoppers are many injurious species, which in some 

 countries take the form of devastating plagues. In New Jersey the in- 

 sects are usually held in check by their natural enemies, and only in un- 

 usually dry seasons do they become at all troublesome to cultivated 

 crops. In such cases the arsenites may be used and sometimes the bran 

 and Paris green as used for cut-worms proves very satisfactory. Instead 

 of bran, fresh horse manure can be used. The grasshoppers are very 

 fond of that and will eat it in preference to almost anything else. 



Turkeys and guinea fowl are very active feeders on grasshoppers, and 

 will keep them down whenever allowed to range freely over infested 

 fields. 



NOMOTETTIX Morse. 



N. cristatus Scudd. Throughout the pine barren IV-X, found in pine and 

 oak wood undergrowth. Is less abundant further north, but Mr. 

 Davis reports it at Little Palls VI, Great Notch V, Newfoundland VII 

 and Lake Hopatcong VII. It therefore occurs throughout the State. 

 Belongs to the little series of "grouse locusts." 



N. carinatus Scudd. Occurs with and is sometimes considered a long- 

 winged form of the preceding. 



N. sinuifrons Hancock. Lakehurst V (Rehn). 



ACRYDIUM Geoff. (TETTIX Fischer.) 



A. granulatum Kirby. Newfoundland V, VII, Staten Island IV, X (Ds) ; 



Camden County (Ss). The form "triangularis" Scudd. occurs with the 



type. 

 A. obscurum Hancock. "New Jersey" (PAS); Belvidere IX (Long); 



Riverton V (Dke) ; Clementon VI, Malaga VIII (GG) ; Stafford's Forge 



IX (Hebard). 



A. arenosum Burm. Husted V, Ocean Co. V (Coll); Staten Island IV-VII, 



X (Ds). 



NEOTETTIX Hancock. 



N. femoratus Scudd. Staten Island VI, VIII, Brookville VII, Jamesburg 

 VII, Lakehurst VII (Ds) 



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PARATETTIX Bolivar. 



P. cucullatus Burm. Delaware Water Gap VII (div) ; Boonton I, 10, 

 nymphs (Greene); Glassboro IX, 19 (Jn) ; lona V, 26 (Dke). 



