140 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO VEGETATION. 



body measures about an inch in length, and from the head to 

 the tips of the wings, from an inch and three quarters to three 

 inches. It is found in its perfect state, during the months of 

 September and October, upon trees, and, when it flies, makes 

 a whizzing noise somewhat like that of a weaver's shuttle. 

 The notes of the male, though grating, are comparatively 

 feeble. The females lay their eggs in the autumn on the twigs 

 of trees and shrubs, in double rows, of seven or eight eggs in 

 each row. These eggs, in form, size, and color, and in then: 

 an-angement on the twig, strikingly resemble those of the katy- 

 did. The Rev. Thomas Hill, of Waltham, had the kindness 

 to procure some of them for me from Philadelphia. 



A third species, also of a green color, with still narrower 

 wing-covers, which are of almost equal width from one end to 

 the other, but are rounded at the tips, and are shorter than the 

 wings, has the head, thorax, musical organs, and breast, like 

 those of the preceding species, but the piercer is much shorter, 

 and very much more crooked, being bent vertically upwards 

 from near its base. The male has a long tapering projection 

 from the under side of the extremity of the body, curved up- 

 wards like the piercer of the female. This grasshopper belongs 

 to the genus Phaneroptera, so named, probably, because the 

 wings are visible beyond the tips of the wing-covers; and, as 

 it does not appear to have been described before, I propose to 

 call it ang-ustifolia* the narrow-leaved. It measures from the 

 forehead to the end of the abdomen about three quarters of an 

 inch, and to the tips of the wings from an inch and a half to 

 an inch and three quarters. Its habits appear to be the same 

 as those of the ohlongifoUa. It comes to maturity sometime 

 in the latter part of August or the beginning of September. 



From the middle till the end of summer, the grass in our 

 meadows and moist fields is filled with myriads of little grass- 

 hoppers, of different ages, and of a light green color, with a 



* I formerly mistook this insect for the Locusta curvicauda of De Geer, -which 

 is found in the Middle and Southern States, but not in Massachusetts, is a larger 

 species, with wing-covers broadest in the middle, and different organs in the 

 male, and belongs to the genus rhylloptera. 



