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the American Acridium (Acridium Americanuin^ Drury, Fig. 40), and 

 t^'°-^i] the Coral-winged Locust 



( (Ed ip da phcenicoptei'a 

 Germ., Fig. 41). The former 

 is our largest and most ele- 

 gant locust, the prevailing 

 color being dark brown, with 

 a broad, pale yellowish line 



Coral-winged Locust. along the middle of the back 



when the wings are closed. The rest of the body is marked with deep 

 brown, verging to black, with pale reddish-brown, and with whitish, 

 or greenish-yellow; the front wings being prettily mottled, the hind 

 wings very faintly greenish with brown veins, and the hind shanks 

 generally coralred with black tipped, white spines. The species is 

 quite variable in color, size and marks, and several of the varieties 

 have been described as distinct species. The Coral-winged Locust is 

 also an elegant species, the colors being brown-black, brick-yellow 

 inclining to brown, and a still paler, whitish-gray; the hind wings va- 

 rying from vermillion-red to pink, with more or less yellowish green, 

 and with a broad external dusky border, broadest and palest at tip. 

 The hind shanks are yellow with black-tipped spines. This species is 

 also quite variable, and at least half a dozen of its slight variations 

 have been seized upon to fabricate new species. 



THE EXODUS IN IST"). 



The grand exodus of the flying swarms from our borders began 

 early in June, and reached its acme about the middle of the month. 

 Some were leaving up to the last week in the month. The cheering 

 news "they fly, they fly," was wired over the country from Coff"ey- 

 ville, Kansas, on the 29th of May, and a few days later these same 

 words that cheered the Waning spirit of General Wolfe as he saw that 

 victory remained with England, and Canada was lost to France, passed 

 along the lines from our Western counties, and gladdened the hearts 

 and revived the dying hopes of the sufl'ering farmers. 



TIME OF LEAVING OF THE WINGED INSECTS. 



The insects which hatched in Northern Texas and Indian Territory, 

 began to leave on wing in greatest numbers, during the second and 

 third weeks of May, and they doubtless went to make up the swarms 

 which were reported as flying at intervals over Western Kansas and 

 Nebraska, during the last half of that month. The grand hegira began, 

 however, during the last two or three days of the month from Southern 

 Kansas, where the insects were more numerous than farther south. By 



