GREEN GRASSHOPPERS (LOCUSTID^E}. 159 



Eu megalodon idee. 



Amongst the most remarkable of the Locustidae are 

 the species now forming the genus Eumegalodon, and 

 the tribe Eumegalodonidse. The ovipositor is long and 

 sabre-shaped ; the legs seem hardly in keeping with the 

 heavy insect ; the thighs indicate its addiction to climb- 

 ing rather than to leaping exclusively (see Fig. 26). It 

 was Brongniart who changed the name Megalodon into 

 Eumegalodon ; the genus Megalodon is placed by some 

 naturalists among the curious Conocephalides. 



