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the piercer not quite so much curved as in our species, besides 

 other differences which it is unnecessary to record here. As 

 our species does not appear to have been named, or described 

 by any previous writer, I propose to call it Orchclimum vulgare, 

 the common meadow-grasshopper, the generical name signify- 

 ing literally, I dance in the meadow. 



With this species another one is also found, bearing a con- 

 siderable resemblance to it in color and form, but measuring 

 only four or five tenths of an inch from the head to the end of 

 the body, or from seven to eight tenths to the tips of the wings, 

 which are a little longer than the wing-covers. The latter are 

 narrow and taper to the end, which is rounded, but the over- 

 lapping portion is not so large as in the common species, and 

 the male has not the two black spots on each wing-cover. 

 The upper part of the abdomen is brown, with the edges of 

 the segments greenish yellow, and the piercer, which is nearly 

 three tenths of an inch long, is brown and nearly straight. 

 This little insect comes very near to Locusta fasciata of De 

 Geer, who, however, makes no mention of the broad brown 

 stripe on the head and thorax. I therefore presume that our 

 species is not the same, and propose to call it Orchelimum 

 g-racile, the slender meadow-grasshopper. M, Serville, by 

 whom this genus was instituted, has described three species, 

 two of which are stated to be North American, and the re- 

 maining one is probably also from this country; but his 

 descriptions do not answer for either of our species. Both of 

 these kinds of meadow-grasshoppers are eaten greedily by 

 fowls of all kinds. 



One more grasshopper remains to be described. It is dis- 

 tinguished from all the preceding species by having the head 

 conical, and extending to a blunt point between the eyes. It 

 belongs to the genus Conocephalus, a word expressive of the 

 conical form of the head, and, in my Catalogue of the Insects 

 of Massachusetts, bears the specific name of ensig-ej; the sword- 

 bearer, from the long, straight, sword-shaped piercer of the 

 female. It measures an inch or more from the point of the 

 head to the end of the body, and from one inch and three 

 quarters to two inches, to the end of the wing-covers. It is 



