THE SWORD-BEARER. 
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With this species another one is also found, bearing a con- 
siderable resemblance to it in color and form, but measuring 
only four or five tenths of an inch from the head to the end 
of the body, or from seven to eight tenths to the tips of the 
wings, which are a little longer than the wing-covers. The 
latter are narrow and taper to the end, which is rounded, but 
the overlapping portion is not so large as in the common 
species, and the male has not the two black spots on each 
wing-cover. The upper part of the abdomen is brown, with 
the edges of the segments greenish-yellow, and the piercer, 
which is nearly three tenths of an inch long, is brown and 
nearly straight. This little insect comes very near to Lo- 
custa fasciata of De Geer, who, however, makes no mention 
of the broad brown stripe on the head and thorax. I therefore 
presume that our species is not the 
same, and propose to call it Orclieli- 
mum gracile (Fig. 78), the slender 
meadow-grasshopper. M. Serville, 
by whom this genus was instituted, 
has described three species, two of 
which are stated to be North Amer- 
ican, and the remaining one is probably also from this coun- 
try ; but his descriptions do not answer for either of our 
species. Both of these kinds of meadow-grasshoppers are 
eaten greedily by fowls of all kinds. 
One more grasshopper remains to be described. It is 
distinguished from all the preceding species by having the 
head conical, and extending to a blunt point between the 
eyes. It belongs to the genus Oonocephalus , a word express- 
ive of the conical form of the head, and, in my Catalogue 
of the Insects of Massachusetts, bears the specific name of 
endger (Fig. 79, male), the sword-bearer, from the long, 
straight, sword-shaped piercer of the female. It measures 
an inch or more from the point of the head to the end of 
the body, and from one inch and three quarters to two 
inches to the end of the wing-covers. It is pale green, with 
