96 FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. 



A far less musical singer than the tree cricket 

 lives in the meadow grasses, and favors us in broadest 

 daylight in the warm days of 

 July with his ^i/?, gip, gip, 



gip-see-e-e-e-e-e-e I 



This is 



Meadow 

 Griisshopper. 



the common meadow grass- 

 hopper Orcheli'iiium vulgare. 

 He is green, and he has long 

 antennae, so he must not be 

 confused with the short, 

 stumpy-feelered, red-legged 

 locust, who is wrongly called a grasshopper. The 

 rchellmum is a delicately modeled creature, about 

 an inch long, with transparent wings through which 

 one may readily see the green body. His legs are 

 slender, and at the shoulder end of each wing is the 

 liard, glassy formation which, when the wing is rapidly 

 vibrated, rubs on the concave expansion of the other 

 wing and causes the sharp, digging sound. The locust 



di lib. 



Cip. gip. gip. gip. zeee 



(grasshopper) in flying, in a very different way, pro- 

 duces a clapping or snapping sound with his wings.* 



■ See Trinierotropis verntculata, page lOii. 



