Cockroaches, Locusts, grasshoppers, and Crickets 143 
tenth of an inch wide in the broadest part; the head is pointed and pro¬ 
jects far forward and upward, the face being very oblique. The wings 
are short and the body color brown. Comstock found this locust quite 
common in Florida on the “wire-grass” which grows in the sand among 
the saw-palmettoes, and “so closely did their brown linear bodies resemble 
dry grass that it was very difficult to perceive them.” So the grotesqueness 
has its use. 
The subfamily (Edipodinae is well represented in the United States, 
Fig. 181 .—Hippiscus tigrinus > female. (After Lugger; nat. size indicated by line.) 
containing twenty-four genera and about 140 species. Almost all the familiar 
locusts with showy colored hind wings belong to this subfamily. One 
of the commonest species all over the United States and Canada is the 
Carolina locust, Dissosteira Carolina (Fig. 178), easily recognized by its 
black hind wings with broad yellow or yellowish-white margin covered with 
dusky spots at the tip. Its body color is pale yellowish or reddish brown, 
and it measures i\-2 inches in length. It flies well; the males have the 
habit of hovering in the air a few feet above the ground and making a loud 
