THE LONG-HORNED GRASSHOPPERS 



(Family Locustidce.) 



These insects, known as the long-horned grasshoppers, or 

 green grasshoppers, comprise those species having very long 

 antennae, longer than the body, having tarsi with four joints in- 

 stead of three, as with the Acridiidae, and possessing in the fe- 

 male sex a long saw-shaped ovipositor which is composed of 

 six pieces instead of four, as with the Acridiidae. They are 

 delicate insects, much more fragile than the short-horned grass- 

 hoppers, and are great singers. The males are usually provided 



Fig. 224. Orchelimum vulgare ; and its eggs. (After Forbes.) 



with a musical apparatus consisting of a curious development 

 of the veins and membrane at the base of the wing cover. A 

 curved ovipositor permits many forms to insert their eggs into 

 pithy plants or into the earth. Nearly all of the species are strict 

 vegetable feeders although some of them are said to be carnivo- 



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