. Insects, their ways and means of living. Insects. THE GRASSHOPPER'S COUSINS \ /f/ {/// saK , ft / // / ^S^—itylxxA W i Vx\ # =57} wl 1 1 { oft.^T Fig. 30. The hand- somt meadow grass- hopper, Orchelimum laticauda Upper figure, a male; lower, a female lable repeated many times. These two elements, the zip and zee, are charac- teristic of the songs of all the Orcheli- mums, some giving more stress to the first and others to the second, and the wings is marked by a brown spot at each corner. These little grasshoppers readily sing in con- finement, both in the day and at night. Their music is ve
. Insects, their ways and means of living. Insects. THE GRASSHOPPER'S COUSINS \ /f/ {/// saK , ft / // / ^S^—itylxxA W i Vx\ # =57} wl 1 1 { oft.^T Fig. 30. The hand- somt meadow grass- hopper, Orchelimum laticauda Upper figure, a male; lower, a female lable repeated many times. These two elements, the zip and zee, are charac- teristic of the songs of all the Orcheli- mums, some giving more stress to the first and others to the second, and the wings is marked by a brown spot at each corner. These little grasshoppers readily sing in con- finement, both in the day and at night. Their music is very unpre- tentious and might easily be lost out of doors, consisting mostly of a soft, rustling buzz that lasts two or three seconds. Often the buzz is preceded or followed by a series of clicks made by a slower movement of the wings. Frequently the player opens the wings for the start of the song with a single click, then proceeds with the buzz, and finally closes with a few slow movements that produce the con- cluding series of clicks. But very commonly he gives only the buzz without prelude or staccato end- ing. Another com- mon member of the genus is the agile meadow grasshopper, Or- chelimum agile. Its music is said to be a long zip, zip, zip, zee-e-e-e, with the zip syl-. Fig. 31. The slender meadow grasshopper, Conocephalus fasciatus, one of the smallest members of the katy- did family 53. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Snodgrass, R. E. (Robert E. ), 1875-1962. New York Smithsonian Institution series
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