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throughout this and adjoining counties, it is my opinion that the present 

 species is more to be feared in the future than they, on account of its 

 arboreal nature and the difficulty of getting at it in order to destroy it. 

 To kill these locusts either while feeding among the foliage or " roost- 

 ing " upon the topmost boughs of the tall trees would be next to impos- 

 sible. On the other hand, the other species are easily to be gotten at 

 and destroyed, as just shown. 



The habits of this locust, as nearly as I was able to learn through 

 inquiry from others, and by personal observation, are briefly as fol- 

 lows: 



The egg-pods are deposited in the ground about the bases of trees or 

 indifferently scattered about the surface among the decaying leaves, 

 &c, like those of all other ground-laying species. The young commence 

 hatching about the middle of March and continue to appear until iuto 

 April. After molting the first time and becoming a little hardened 

 they immediately climb up the trunks of the trees and bushes of all 

 kinds and commence feeding upou the new and tender foliage. They 

 molt at least five or six times, if we may take the variation in size and 

 difference in the development of the rudiments of wings as a criterion. 

 The imago or mature stage is reached by the last of May or during the 

 first part of June. 



The species is very active and shy in all its stages of growth after 

 leaving the egg. The larva and pupa run up the trunks and along the 

 limbs of trees with considerable speed, and in this respect differ con- 

 siderably from all other species of locusts with which I am acquainted. 

 I am informed that the mature insects are also equally wild and fly like 

 birds. They feed both by day and night 5 and I am told by those who 

 have passed through the woods after night when all else was quiet, 

 that the noise produced by the grinding of their jaws was not unlike 

 the greedy feeding of swine. 



Aside from its arboreal nature there is but a single instance men- 

 tioned of its preference to growing crops. This was a small field of 

 either cotton or corn, or perhaps both. If the nature of the crop was 

 told me at the time I have forgotten. At any rate the crop of one or 

 the other of these two staples grew in a small clearing in the very midst 

 of the most thickly visited area. The mature insects alone were the 

 offenders in this instance. During the day-time they would leave the 

 trees in swarms and alight upon the growing crop and feed until even 

 ing, when they would return to the trees. If, during the day, they were 

 disturbed, they immediately took wing and left for the tops of the sur- 

 rounding trees to return shortly afterward. 



The exact classification of this locust has not yet been fully ascer- 

 tained, since no mature specimens were to be obtained, or, to my knowl- 

 edge, are contained in any of our American collections. The larvae and 

 pupae collected, however, would indicate a relationship to both the gen- 

 era Melanoplus and Acridium. It appears to be congeneric with an 



