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  REPORT 
  OF 
  XEW 
  JERSEY 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  and 
  best 
  known 
  of 
  our 
  insects, 
  jumping 
  or 
  flying 
  up 
  however 
  one 
  turns, 
  

   among 
  grass 
  or 
  low 
  herbage 
  in 
  roads, 
  fields 
  or 
  meadows. 
  The 
  females 
  

   have 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  four 
  horny 
  valves, 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  which 
  

   they 
  lay 
  their 
  eggs 
  in 
  masses 
  in 
  the 
  ground 
  or 
  in 
  soft 
  decaying 
  wood, 
  

   where 
  they 
  may 
  remain 
  all 
  winter 
  or 
  may 
  hatch 
  in 
  fall. 
  In 
  the 
  latter 
  

   case 
  the 
  partly 
  grown 
  larvae 
  winter 
  and 
  are 
  sometimes 
  seen 
  on 
  mild 
  days 
  

   even 
  on 
  the 
  snow. 
  The 
  hind 
  legs 
  are 
  much 
  the 
  longest, 
  developed 
  for 
  

   jumping, 
  the 
  antennae 
  rarely 
  exceeding 
  and 
  often 
  not 
  equalling 
  half 
  the 
  

   length 
  of 
  the 
  body. 
  

  

  Among 
  the 
  grasshoppers 
  are 
  many 
  injurious 
  species, 
  which 
  in 
  some 
  

   countries 
  take 
  the 
  form 
  of 
  devastating 
  plagues. 
  In 
  New 
  Jersey 
  the 
  in- 
  

   sects 
  are 
  usually 
  held 
  in 
  check 
  by 
  their 
  natural 
  enemies, 
  and 
  only 
  in 
  un- 
  

   usually 
  dry 
  seasons 
  do 
  they 
  become 
  at 
  all 
  troublesome 
  to 
  cultivated 
  

   crops. 
  In 
  such 
  cases 
  the 
  arsenites 
  may 
  be 
  used 
  and 
  sometimes 
  the 
  bran 
  

   and 
  Paris 
  green 
  as 
  used 
  for 
  cut-worms 
  proves 
  very 
  satisfactory. 
  Instead 
  

   of 
  bran, 
  fresh 
  horse 
  manure 
  can 
  be 
  used. 
  The 
  grasshoppers 
  are 
  very 
  

   fond 
  of 
  that 
  and 
  will 
  eat 
  it 
  in 
  preference 
  to 
  almost 
  anything 
  else. 
  

  

  Turkeys 
  and 
  guinea 
  fowl 
  are 
  very 
  active 
  feeders 
  on 
  grasshoppers, 
  and 
  

   will 
  keep 
  them 
  down 
  whenever 
  allowed 
  to 
  range 
  freely 
  over 
  infested 
  

   fields. 
  

  

  NOMOTETTiX 
  Morse. 
  

  

  N. 
  cristatus 
  Scudd. 
  Throughout 
  the 
  pine 
  barren 
  IV-X, 
  found 
  in 
  pine 
  and 
  

   oak 
  wood 
  undergrowth. 
  Is 
  less 
  abundant 
  further 
  north, 
  but 
  Mr. 
  

   Davis 
  reports 
  it 
  at 
  Little 
  Falls 
  VI, 
  Great 
  Notch 
  V, 
  Newfoundland 
  VII 
  

   and 
  Lake 
  Hopatcong 
  VII. 
  It 
  therefore 
  occurs 
  throughout 
  the 
  State. 
  

   Belongs 
  to 
  the 
  little 
  series 
  of 
  "grouse 
  locusts." 
  

  

  N. 
  carinatus 
  Scudd'. 
  Occurs 
  with 
  and 
  is 
  sometimes 
  considered 
  a 
  long- 
  

   winged 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  preceding. 
  

  

  N. 
  sinuifrons 
  Hancock. 
  Lakehurst 
  V 
  (Rehn). 
  

  

  ACRYDIUM 
  Geoff. 
  (TETTIX 
  Fischer.) 
  

  

  A. 
  granulatum 
  Kirby. 
  Newfoundland 
  V, 
  VII, 
  Staten 
  Island 
  IV, 
  X 
  (Ds) 
  ; 
  

  

  Camden 
  County 
  (Ss). 
  The 
  form 
  "triangularis" 
  Scudd. 
  occurs 
  with 
  the 
  

  

  type. 
  

   A. 
  obscurum 
  Hancock. 
  "New 
  .Jersey" 
  (PAS); 
  Belvidere 
  IX 
  (Long); 
  

  

  Riverton 
  V 
  (Dke) 
  ; 
  Clementon 
  VI, 
  Malaga 
  VIII 
  (GG) 
  ; 
  Stafford's 
  Forge 
  

  

  IX 
  (Hebard). 
  

  

  A. 
  arenosum 
  Burm. 
  Husted 
  V, 
  Ocean 
  Co. 
  V 
  (Coll) 
  ; 
  Staten 
  Island 
  IV- 
  VII, 
  

  

  X 
  (Ds). 
  

  

  NEOTETTIX 
  Hancock. 
  

  

  N. 
  femoratus 
  Scudd. 
  Staten 
  Island 
  VI, 
  VIII, 
  Brookville 
  VII, 
  Jamesburg 
  

   VII, 
  Lakehurst 
  VII 
  (Ds) 
  

  

  PARATETTIX 
  Bolivar. 
  

  

  P. 
  cucullatus 
  Burm. 
  Delaware 
  Water 
  Gap 
  VII 
  (div); 
  Boonton 
  I, 
  10, 
  

   nymphs 
  (Greene); 
  Glassboro 
  IX, 
  19 
  (Jn); 
  lona 
  V, 
  26 
  (Dke). 
  

  

  