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of actual flight. The species of Pezotettix and aUied genera are 

 short-winged in both sexes, are of medium or small size, and 

 prefer cool or shady spots on mountain sides, among rocks, at 

 the edges of woods, or in similar localities, hence never become 

 economically important. The species are most numerous in the 

 West and South. 



Fig. 61. 

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Lubber grasshoppers. — a, Dictvophorns reticulatis : b, Brachystola »iastia. 



Two very large and clumsy species occur, both known as 

 "lubbers;" one in Florida, short-winged, yellow and black, is 

 Didyophonis reticjilatis, — the other, a Western plains species, 

 dirty-brown in color, and with mere rudiments of wings, also 

 known as the " Buffalo grasshopper," is Brachystola viac^na. 



Last to be mentioned in this series are the "grouse locusts," 

 or Tettigincs. These remarkable little creatures have the pro- 



