Lon§:-horned Grasshoppers, 



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Photo by] 



This is the finest of the British grasshoppers, but it 

 inconspicuous among the foliage of trees and bushi_-s. 

 is a powerful singer. 



E. Step, F.L.S. 



The Great Green Grasshopper. 



uniform bright green tint makes it very 

 Till- photograph is of a female. The male 



plants or the flesh 

 of galls in order 

 that the eggs may 

 be deposited there- 

 in. 



In this family 

 we find a remark- 

 able feature in the 

 situation of the 

 organs of hearing. 

 To carry them on 

 the back as the 

 short-horns do is 

 strange enough, 

 but to have them 

 in the shank of the 

 fore-legs appears to 

 be a much more 

 extraordinary 

 situation for such 

 organs. But we 



can at least point to a somewhat parallel case in the lobsters, shrimps, and other 

 long-tailed crustaceans, where the ear is situated in the lowest joint of the antenna. 

 In this leg-ear of the long-horns there are two drums, formed by a thinning of the 

 outer integument of the leg on each side. In the interior there is a large air-chamber 

 close against each --^^ 



drum, and the air- *,^^ .^^t"""**" * 



supply for these 

 chambers is de- 

 rived, not from the 

 general respiratory 

 system, but from 

 special pipes whose 

 inlets are on the 

 back of the fore- 

 body above the 

 front legs. It is 

 not clear why such 

 a special supply 

 should be neces- 

 sary. When one 

 has got over the 

 first shock of sur- '"" * \'ariable Green Grasshopper. 



prise on finding This long-hom is frequently fouiul among the foliage of trees, eating not only the leavt 



the ears in so 



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but also the 

 Insects to be found there. In autumn the fcnrale deposits her eggs in oak-galls, where they remain 

 during the winter and hatch in the spring. 



