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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 Kev. 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 fi’om 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, hut the piercer is 
Fig. 70. 
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 
