. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms; . Phota hj Htghi^j EGYPTIAN LOCUST A commom North African spenies. , hj IlighUj EGYPTIAN LOCUST This figure iht upper iurfact of tht specimen represented in the preceding photograph 296 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD grass and low bushes, especially in the south of England. It is about 2 inches in the foreign species of this rather extensive family, we may mention some green orreddish South American species, with a large round spot on the hind wings, not unlike those seenin the peacock-butterf
. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms; . Phota hj Htghi^j EGYPTIAN LOCUST A commom North African spenies. , hj IlighUj EGYPTIAN LOCUST This figure iht upper iurfact of tht specimen represented in the preceding photograph 296 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD grass and low bushes, especially in the south of England. It is about 2 inches in the foreign species of this rather extensive family, we may mention some green orreddish South American species, with a large round spot on the hind wings, not unlike those seenin the peacock-butterfly. The last family includes the SiiORT-HORXED GRASSHOPPERS, or True LocuSTS, so very destructive in many countries, though the real MIGRATORY LOCUSTS , are only casual visitors to England, [ the native British species being all ! small insects, found among grass, and doing but little damage. Thecommonest of the Migratory Locustsvisiting Britain is the Red-LEGGEDLocust, which expands from 2 to 4inches, and has grey wing-cases variedwith brown, pale green hind wings,and red hind shanks, with whiteblack-tipped spines. Another species,the
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