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The Carolina Locust, Dissosteira Carolina, (Dis-sos-tei'ra), 
is common throughout the United States and Canada, and 
at the North is our largest species. It lives in roads and on 
bare places, and its color matches the soil on which it lives. 
It is usually pale yellowish or reddish-brown or slate color, 
with small dusky spots. The hind wings are black, with a 
broad yellow edge. It measures from one inch and a half 
to nearly two inches in length. 
The Sprinkled Locust, Chrysochraon conspersum (Chry- 
soch'ra-on con-sper'sum) (Fig. 122), is a common species. 
Here the wings are a little 
shorter than the abdomen in 
the males, and much shorter in 
the females. 
I ft the South and in the Fig. ,22 .—Chrysochraon conspersum. 
West we find several 
genera in which the body 
is very long and slender. 
Leptysma marguiicolle 
(Leptys'ma mar-gin-i- 
F.g. „ 3 .-L'ftyma marginicolle. col ' le ) (Fig. 1 23), will 
serve as an illustration of the form of these insects. 
There is a group of small locusts of which Tcttix (Fig. 
124) is an example, which is remarkable for the shape of 
the pronotum. This projects backward like 
a little roof over the wings, and often 
extends beyond the end of the abdomen. 
With these insects the wing-covers are in F,G -«« --Tettu. 
the shape of small rough scales, the wings being protected 
by the large pronotum. These insects are commonly found 
in low, wet places, and on the borders of streams. Their 
colors are usually dark, and are often protective, closely 
resembling that of the soil upon which they occur. These 
locusts are very active, jumping great distances. 
