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egg sacs were isolated and during the latter part of May the young 
grasshoppers made their appearance. In the first and second stages 
they are pea green, but in the third stage changes in the ground color 
occur. Some remain green, while equally as many become brown. 
The body and appendicular markings of the two color varieties remain 
the same. This locust hibernates in the egg condition, though the 
egos are deposited much later than are those of differentialis. Adults 
placed in the breeding cages on October 15 deposited eggs November 2. 
Five molts occur before maturity is reached. Young emerging from 
the eggs on May 28, 1900, molted June 10, June 19, June 29, July 8, 
and July 28. Adults in confinement are shy and soon die in captivity. 
In destructiveness to crops of the Mississippi Delta this species stands 
next to differentialis. It readily attracts attention by its size, color, 
and vigorous flight. Notwithstanding its prevalence, not a single 
specimen was found attacked by parasitic flies or by the South African 
funeus. Scelio hyalinipennis Ashm. was bred from the eggs, as was 
Scelio wdipodw Ashm. 
Fic. 16.—The large black grasshopper Dictyophorus reticulatus (original). 
The egg beds of this species being similar in position to those of 
the Melanoplus differentialis the remedial measures recommended for 
differentialis will prove effectual for this. 
Dictyophorus reticulatus.—(See fig. 16.) This large black species 
is a short-winged form, is only locally distributed and may occur only 
in spots, even upon a small plantation. It is a voracious feeder, pre- 
ferring the coarser grasses and sedges of swamp areas. Its wander- 
ing into cultivated crops is only occasional, and hence this locust does 
not attract much attention. 
The eggs are deposited in sodded areas all during the month of 
August (see fig. of egg pod; fig. 17). 
By September 15 females are rare, not more than 10 per cent of 
hundreds collected at this time were females. This is just the oppo- 
site of the observations upon differentialis. Males usually die a few 
days in advance of females. Eggs of Dictyophorus hatch as early 
as April 20, As is usual with most Acridids five molts occur in the 
