266 THICKET COMMUNITIES 
locust (Melano plus differentialis), an occasional red-legged locust, and the 
striped shrub cricket, the short-winged brown locust (Stenobothrus cur- 
tipennis), the short-winged meadow grasshopper (Xiphidium brevipenne), 
and the Texas katydid (Scudderia texensis) (40, pp. 330, 390). 
The jug-making wasp (Eumenes fraternus) (40, p. 207) makes its 
jug-like nest on the herbaceous plants. The social wasp (Polistes) is 
a frequent visitor of the flowers, 
and sometimes attaches its comb 
to the willow. The oblong leaf- 
winged katydid (Amblycorypha 
oblongifolia) (Fig. 263) (40, p. 
391) and the fork-tailed katydid 
261 262 
Fic. 261.—The tarnished plant-bug (Lygus pratensis); about one-fourth of an 
inch long (after Forbes). 
Fic. 262.—The dusky leaf-bug (Adelphocoris rapidus); about one-fourth of an 
inch long (after Forbes). 
(Scudderia furcata) (Fig. 264) are residents. The latter places its egg 
on leaves of shrubs (40). Willow leaf-feeders are numerous; several 
lepidopterous larvae are common. These include the brilliant larva of 
the smeared dagger-moth (Fig. 265), the cecropia moth, the willow 
sphinx, the viceroy and mourning-cloak butterflies, the maia moth 
(Fig. 266), the fork-tailed caterpillar (137), larva of the maia moth, 
and others. The small fly (Bibio albipennis) visits the flowers of the 
