Insect life; an introduction to nature-study and a guide for teachers, students, and others interested in out-of-door life . FIG. 51.^A locust. stouter or very much longer,or both stouter and longer,than the other pairs, beingfitted for jumping. This isthe first ot these three fami-lies. In this family the an-tennae are shorter than the. Fig. 52.—A locust. body. The ovipositor isshort and composed of fourseparate plates. The tarsiare three-jointed. The mem-bers of the family are knownas locusts or short-horned grasshoppers (Figs. 51 and 52). Family Locustid/E (Lo-custi-das).—This is thesecond
Insect life; an introduction to nature-study and a guide for teachers, students, and others interested in out-of-door life . FIG. 51.^A locust. stouter or very much longer,or both stouter and longer,than the other pairs, beingfitted for jumping. This isthe first ot these three fami-lies. In this family the an-tennae are shorter than the. Fig. 52.—A locust. body. The ovipositor isshort and composed of fourseparate plates. The tarsiare three-jointed. The mem-bers of the family are knownas locusts or short-horned grasshoppers (Figs. 51 and 52). Family Locustid/E (Lo-custi-das).—This is thesecond of the three families of jumping Orthoptera. Fig. 50.—A walking-stick. CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. n In this family the antennas are very slender andlonger than the body, (This is also true of crickets.)The ovipositor is sword-shaped. The tarsi are four-jointed. The family as awhole are called the truegrasshoppers or the long-horned grasshoppers. Someof the smaller species (Fig. 53) are known as meadow-grasshoppers, and a few of the larger species arecalled katydids (Fig. 54). It should be observedthat, owing to an unfortunate application of names,
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