30 INSECTS INJURIOUS IN 1902. 
objects suspected to be eggs to the Entomologist at the Experi- 
ment Station. 
Before closing the discussion on Grasshoppers, I wish to call 
attention to an error which sometimes creeps into the press. The 
Entomologist was reported this summer as having gone north to 
“combat the Seventeen Year Locusts.” To the best of my knowl- 
edge that insect does not occur within this State, though we have 

Fig. 27.—Cicada tibicen Linn. Male and female. Lugger. 
several forms resembling it. It looks like the accompanying fig- 
ure, is not a true Locust, but a Cicadid, belonging to the great 
order of Bugs, one group of insects. 
What we commonly call Grasshoppers are really Locusts Dbe- 
ionging to the order Orthoptera, Family Acridide, and the true 
Grasshoppers are the more slender, greenish insects with long 

Vig. 28. Common Meadow Grasshopper (Orchelimum vulgare), male. Lugger. 
horns or feelers seen on bushes and herbage generally, (Fig. 28) ; 
nevertheless we will probably. go on calling Locusts “Grasshop- 
pers” to the end of the chapter. 
