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made in Japanese colors, and making the examinations under 

 different weather conditions. 



As in many of the Locustidae during courtship, the male 

 makes advances to the female. Raising his wings at an angle 

 to the body, and lowering his abdomen, he backs toward her to 

 effect conjugation and transfer a spermatophore. After this 

 courtship the female often carries the spermatophore contain- 

 ing the spermatozoa, attached to her body for a period of sev- 

 eral hours ; this is done in order to give the spermatozoa time 

 to enter the vagina. She finally rids herself of this apparent 

 incumbrance by arching the abdomen downward and forward 

 so she can reach it with her mouth. She then proceeds to pull 

 it off and eat it. The eggs to the number of about thirty de- 

 velop in the body during the first week in August, and gradu- 

 ally maturing, a few at a time are laid during August, Septem- 

 ber, October and early November, when conditions are fa- 

 vorable. 



There is a noticeable difference between the manner in which 

 the members of Amblycorypha lay their eggs from that exhib- 

 ited in the allied genera Scndderia and Microc cut ruin. When 

 the pink or green mother Amblycorypha oblongifolia is ready 

 to oviposit she usually comes down to the ground from the 

 vegetation which she frequents. She then searches about 

 on the ground, often among the dead leaves, to find a suitable 

 place to deposit her eggs. She does this very deliberately and 

 slowly feeling her way with her palpi, often nibbling the sur- 

 face as if testing a suitable place. At times she appears to be 

 quite exacting in her choice of location when at liberty, one 

 of these requisites being a certain amount of dampness of 

 soil, as well as certain surface conditions. When she finds a 

 suitable spot, she curves her abdomen, which is now distended 

 with eggs, forward underneath her body and at the same time 

 seizes the end of the large ovipositor in her mandibles. In 

 this way she directs its point to the desired place in the 

 ground. Then she forces or drills a hole in the earth for the 

 reception of each egg or cluster of eggs. Sometimes they are 

 laid at such a shallow depth in the ground that the rains 

 splash away the dirt covering, fully exposing them to the air. 



