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OliTHOPTERA. 



of the male, though grating, are comparatively feeble. The 

 females lay their eggs in the autumn on the twigs of trees 

 and shrubs, in double rows, of seven or eight eggs in each 

 -row. These eggs, in form, size, and color, and in their 

 arrangement on the twig, strikingly resemble those of the 

 katy-did. The Rev. Thomas Hill, of Waltham, had the 

 kindness to procure some of them for me from Philadelphia. 

 A third species, also of a green color, with still narrower 

 wing-covers, which are of almost equal width from one end 

 to the other, but are rounded at the tips, and are shorter 

 than the wings, has the head, thorax, musical organs, and 

 breast like those of the preceding species, but the piercer is 



Fig. 76. 



much shorter, and very much more crooked, being bent 

 vertically upwards from near its base. The male has a long 

 tapering projection from the under side of the extremity of 



