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COLLEGE ZOOLOGY 



Fig. 272. — Order Orthoptera. Rocky Moun- 

 tain grasshopper or locust, Melanoplus spretus. 



a, a, a, females in different positions, laying eggs; 



b, egg-pod taken from ground, with end broken 

 open; c, eggs lying loose on ground; d, e, earth 

 partly removed to show egg mass in place (e) and 

 one being placed {d)\ f, where egg mass has been 

 covered up. (After Riley, from Yearbook Dept. 

 Agric, igo8.) 



Fig. 271. — Order Or- 

 thoptera. The north- 

 ern " walking-stick," 

 Diapheromera femorata. 

 (From Davenport.) 



Fig. 274. — Order 

 Orthoptera. 

 House-cricket, Gryl- 

 lus domestic us. 

 (From the Cam- 

 bridge Natural His- 

 tory.) 



Fig. 273. — Order Orthoptera. Katydid, Microcentrum retinerve. 

 (From Sedgwick's Zoology, after Riley.) 



