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raiiders that would be appalling to an eastern agriculturist. 
No description is necessary to enable my readers to recog- 
nize a grasshopper. The species that does by far greatest 
harm to farm and garden crops in Colorado is the large 
two-stripped grasshopper {Melanoplus bivittatus'). 
This and several closely related species deposit their 
eggs in little pouches or pockets in the ground in the man- 
Pig. 46. — Rocky Mountain Locust laying eggs: a, a, females with their ab- 
domens inserted in the ground; b, an egg-pod broken open; c, scattered eggs; d, 
egg-packet being formed by female; e, egg packet completed. (After Riley.) 
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