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PLANTS AND INSECTS 
and it rubbed every part of the, body. It primped like some lady pre¬ 
paring to attend a social meeting. Despite the fact that our train was 
moving at the rate of forty miles an hour, it sat and clung to the 
smooth glass sash, and administered its evening ablution with apparent 
ease. When it was finished, it flew away. In the meantime it had been 
transported some fifteen or twenty miles. It was the first katydid that 
I ever had for a seat-companion in a Pulman! car, and before it left I 
learned to admire it. 
Katydids belong 1 to the grasshopper family. They sometimes make 
a noise in daytime, but this is rather weak and a very different one 
compared with the noise made at night. It makes the noise “katydid” 
by rubbing the overlapping wing-covers against each other. This 
noise can be made even with the wings of a dead katydid. The eggs 
