INSECT PESTS OF CIGAR-TYPE TOBACCOS Sie 
I'rgurE 41.—The southern red-legged grasshopper. 
move into cultivated crops to obtain a more favorable food supply. 
Grasshoppers with short antennae, the southern red-legged grass- 
hopper (Melanoplus femur-rubrum propinquus Scudd.) (fig. 41) and 
the lesser migratory grasshopper (Afelanoplus meaicanus Saussure), 
Figure 42.—The long-horned grasshopper, about xX 5. This insect sometimes 
causes damage in tall tobacco. 
are the most abundant forms in tobacco fields, while the slender, 
greenish-colored grasshoppers with long antennae (Conocephalus sp. ) 
(fig. 42) are sometimes injurious in high tobacco. The large Amer- 
ican grasshopper (Schistocerca americana (Drury)) (fig. 43) occa- 
sionally causes some injury to this crop. 
ner 45. —The American grasshopper (Schistocerca americana), X 14%. This 
grasshopper occasionally attacks cigar tobaccos. 
