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trees with emphatic assurance "Katy did, she did." 

 These notes are continued all night. 



The body is pale green ; the wings and wing-covers are 

 of a deeper shade. The legs are also green, and very 

 long. The thorax is rough, marked by two slightly 

 transverse furrows : and being curved down a little on 

 each side, with a slightly rounded elevation behind, 

 somewhat resembles a saddle. The insect is about an 

 inch and a half long, the female having a projecting 

 ovipositor. The wings are shorter than the wing-covers, 

 which, with their strong midrib and regular venation, 

 much resemble a leaf. These large wing-covers are 

 both oval and concave, and inclose the body within, 

 meeting above and below at their edges like the two 

 parts of a bivalve shell. The piercer of the female is 

 broad, laterally compressed, and curved like a cimeter ; 

 and in both sexes there are two little thorn-like projec- 

 tions from the middle of the breast between the fore legs. 

 The antennae are very long and slender. They attain 

 maturity in September and October, when the female 

 lays her eggs in two intersecting rows of eight or ten 

 each, along the twig of the tree, the bark being rough- 

 ened under them. The eggs are slate-brown, about one- 

 eighth of an inch across, shaped much like flax-seed, and 

 overlap each other like shingles. They are gummed 

 securely to the twig. They hatch in the spring. 



Remedy. Gather the broods of eggs on the twigs at 

 the annual pruning; or capture and destroy fche mother 

 before she deposits her eggs. They are often found on 

 grapevines, both eggs and insects. 



19. THE OBLOKG-WINGED KATY-DID (Phylloptera 

 oblongi/olia, De Geer) is so similar in habits of feed- 

 ing and laying its eggs as not to need any separate 

 description. 



20. THE LEAF-CRUMPLER (Phycis indigenella, Zeller). 

 The common name of this insect is a very appropriate 



