330 NATURE SKETCHES IN TEMPERATE AMERICA 



of the acridian fauna, as I found it, on the day our photograph 

 was taken. 



Obscure grouse locust {Tetrix obscurus). 



Long- winged grouse locust {Teltigidea pennata). 



Sprinkled locust (Chlwaltis conspersa). 



Short-winged brown locust (Stenobotkrus curtipennis). 



Varied-wing locust (Arphia xanthoptera) . 



Yellow-winged locust {Arphia sulphureaj. 



Green-striped locust [Chortophaga nridifasdata) young. 



Carolina locust (Dissosteira Carolina). 



Lubberly locust (Melanoplus differentialis). 



Mottled sand locust {Spharagemon wyomingianum). 



Boll's locust {Spharagemon bolli). 



Leather-colored locust {Schistocerca alutacea). 



Red-legged locust (Melanoplus femur-rubrum) , 



Narrow- winged locust {Melanoplus angustipennis). 



Lurid locust {Melanoplus luridus). 



Lesser locust (Melanoplus atlanis). 



Small locust (Melanoplus minor). 



Clouded locust (Encoptoloplus sordidus). 



The Texan Katydid 



The beautiful, bright green Texan katydid is one of our 

 commonest and yet one of our most interesting species. It 

 may easily be recognized from our plate photographic illustra- 

 tion, which is here reproduced. In the chapter on the 

 Habitat of the Orthoptera, showing a landscape view and 

 the species noted there, I have mentioned the Texan katydid 

 as one of the number represented. It is also referred to under 

 Pasture Insects in August, where I have given a note of 

 its habits. This species frequents damp meadows and pastures, 

 where it lives among such coarse herbage as tall sedges, grasses, 

 lobelia, and goldenrod. When startled, it arises in the air 

 and pursues a noiseless, zig-zag flight just over the tops of the 

 weeds, finally dropping some distance away from the pursuer. 

 At night I have frequently heard its notes along the roadside 

 and located the songster with the aid of my lantern light. 



It matures in the early part of August, and then about the 

 middle of the month begins to lay its eggs in the leaves of 

 plants. August thirteenth I found several of these insects 



