Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . FIG. 47.—Mantis Carolina, soothsayer. Natural size,consists of other insects. Eggs laid in large bunches on various ORDER PLATYPTERA. 63 Family Phasmidae — The walking-sticks or spectres, representedby our DinpJieromera fetnoratmn Say, which resemble twigs, are veryslender, with more or less cylindrical bodiesand long legs; their wings are either want-ing or rudimentary, or if developed, strik-ingly leaf-like, as in the leaf-insect (Fig. 48,Phyllium siccifolium Linn.). Family Acrydiidae.—Locu
Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . FIG. 47.—Mantis Carolina, soothsayer. Natural size,consists of other insects. Eggs laid in large bunches on various ORDER PLATYPTERA. 63 Family Phasmidae — The walking-sticks or spectres, representedby our DinpJieromera fetnoratmn Say, which resemble twigs, are veryslender, with more or less cylindrical bodiesand long legs; their wings are either want-ing or rudimentary, or if developed, strik-ingly leaf-like, as in the leaf-insect (Fig. 48,Phyllium siccifolium Linn.). Family Acrydiidae.—Locusts have shortantennae, and the body is laterally com-pressed; the ears are at the base of the hindbody, while the ovipositor is short. (Edi-poda Carolina (Linn.), Caloptenus spret*,and C. fcmitr-r libra m. Family Locustidae.—Body compressed;but the antennae very long and slender,while the ovipositor is very large and sabre-shaped. Some forms, as Ceuthophilus, are FIG. 48.—Lpaf-insect, Phyl-wingless. The large green grasshoppers Hum. Half natural size,represent this group, of which the katydid and its allies (Phanerop-tera curvicauda, De Geer) are familiar examples. Certain forms close-ly resemble leave
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