INSECTS 



dids in the United States, all with broad, green, leaf-like 

 front wings, long, slender antennae and large, leaping hind 

 legs (fig. 138). The large, f^at, seed-like eggs (fig. 138) are 



Fig. 138. —Katydid, and k-al with eggs of katydid along edge. (Natural 

 size; from specimens.) 



laid overlapping each other in regular rows along a twig 

 or the edge of a leaf, and the young undergo an incom- 

 plete metamorphosis. In both immature and adult stage 

 katydids feed on the foliage of trees. The crickets are 



