THE CORAL-WING LOCUST 



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the Coral -wing, though it is not, to my mind, satisfac- 

 torily accounted for by the naturalists. I have shown 

 him in the act of flight as I recall him, though merely 

 from my memory. Only the large under- wings bear 

 the bright color, and these are folded like a fan be- 

 neath the brown wing covers when the insect is at 

 rest. Above him I have pictured another locust, which 

 frequently keeps him company in the spring woods, 

 and they are a pretty and complementary pair together, 

 the latter being of the brightest green, and though 

 without rattle or even rustle, as agile as a moth upon 

 the wing, and in flight it might easily deceive a tyro 

 entomologist. 



