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the leaves of a ragweed. Had I not "marked him down" 

 carefully it would have been difficult to locate his narrow green 

 body again. Against the green background he is perfectly 

 concealed. Like the other members of this group he resembles 

 the green vegetation to a marked degree. He is, moreover, 

 hardly visible on the wing, for his plainly glazed wings are quite 

 inconspicuous in the air. In association with the Texan katy- 

 did is a smaller form, the fork-tail species of Scudderia. The 

 latter is, perhaps, a little more sprightly on the wing and 

 considerably smaller than his neighbor above referred to. 



In general, the pasture is drier than the meadow, due to a 

 difference in drainage. Here the prevailing ])lant species are 

 grasses, or the ground is invaded with perennial herbage, such 

 as I have described in the beginning of this article, in which 

 case we have a blending of pasture and meadow. The life 

 I have portrayed above is that living under both pasture and 

 meadow conditions. In another chapter I have described in 

 detail the Pasture Locust, which e.xemplifies a typical pasture 

 insect living under conditions of restricted plant association. 



