The Green Grasshopper 



but always under conditions which did not 

 allow of completing my observation, I have 

 caught her carrying the fertilizing-concern 

 under the base of her sabre. It is a dia- 

 phanous, oval phial, measuring three or four 

 millimetres ^ and hanging from a crystal 

 thread, a neck almost as long as the dis- 

 tended part. The insect does not touch it, 

 but leaves the phial to dry up and shrivel 

 where it Is.^ 



Let us be content with this. These five 

 examples, furnished by such different genera, 

 Decticus, Analota, Grasshopper, Ephippiger 

 and Phaneroptera, prove that the Locustid, 

 like the Scolopendra and the Cephalopod, 

 is a belated representative of the manners 

 of antiquity, a valuable specimen of the 

 genetic eccentricities of olden times. 



* .117 to .156 inch. — Translator's Note. 



^ Fuller details on this curious subject would be out of 

 place in a book in which anatomy and physiology cannot 

 always speak quite freely. They will be found in my 

 essay on the Locustidae which appeared in the Annates 

 des sciences naturelles, 1896. — Author's Note. 



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