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GLEANINGS FROM NATURE. 



commonly called "the katydid," and the note of 



Cyrtophyllus concavus is usually attributed to it but its 



true note may be represented "'by the 



syllable 'tic* repeated from eierht to 

 Angular-winged J , 



Katydid twenty times at the rate 01 about four 



to the second." It is evidently at- 

 tracted by light, being often found in the gutters 

 beneath the electric lights in the 

 larger cities and towns. It oc- 

 curs, probably, throughout the 

 State, but is more common south- 

 ward and is nowhere found in 

 sufficient numbers to be injuri- 

 ous. The eggs are laid on twigs 

 which have been previously 

 roughened with the jaws and 

 otherwise prepared for a place of 

 deposit. The two rows are con- 

 tiguous and the eggs of one alter- 

 nate with those of the other. 

 Those of the same row overlap 

 about one-fourth of their length. 

 They are of a grayish brown 

 color, long oval in shape, very flat, 

 and measure 5.5x3 mm. They 

 are usually deposited in Septem- 

 ber, hatch the following May, and 

 the young, in central Indiana, 

 reach maturity during the first 

 half of August. 

 The green grasshoppers are those slender-bodied 

 Locustidce, with long, tapering antennae, which arc so 



