Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . m Asiaand Africa, and iswidely distributedthrough tropicalSouth America. Drury has brickred hind wings andexpands nearly sev-en inches ; its rangeis from Texas toPanama. (Edipoda is a largeand well known ge-nus, in which there is no spine between the fore legs, and thefront of the head is vertical and swollen. (Edipoda CarolinaLinn, is pale yellowish brown, the wings black with a broad yel-low hind margin, and it expands over three and a h
Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . m Asiaand Africa, and iswidely distributedthrough tropicalSouth America. Drury has brickred hind wings andexpands nearly sev-en inches ; its rangeis from Texas toPanama. (Edipoda is a largeand well known ge-nus, in which there is no spine between the fore legs, and thefront of the head is vertical and swollen. (Edipoda CarolinaLinn, is pale yellowish brown, the wings black with a broad yel-low hind margin, and it expands over three and a half is abundant even-where. (E. stdpJiurea Fabr. has deep yel-low wings, with a broad dusky band beyond the middle, while(E. corallina Harris has hind wings of a rich coral red. ( Germar (Fig. 565) ranges from New England ti-the Mississippi. It is reddish brown ; the prothorax has a highrounded unbroken ridge ; the fore wings are flecked with smalldusky spots ; the hind wings are yellow at the base, fuscousbeyond and clouded at the tip ; the hind shanks are dusky,with a pale band below the knee. The wings of the male ex-. 57 2 ORTHOPTERA. panel two and a quarter inches; those of the female threeinches. Mr. Scudder has discovered a chalcid parasite in theeggs of CEdipoda Carolina. In Tettix the pronotum is prolongeel beyond the abdomen,and the antenme are thirteen to fourteen-jointed, while Tetti-(fidea differs from it by having twenty-two-jointed antennae, anda thicker, shorter body. Tettix granulata Kirby has a veiyprominent vertex, with the front border angulated. Tettigidea lateral!s Saj* is a common species, and may befound, like all the other allied species, in the spring and au-tnmn. It is pale brown, writh the sides of the boely blackish ;the prothorax is yellowish clay colored, and the fore wingshave a small white spot at the tips. Batracludea has but twelve joints to the antenna?, and other-wise differs from Tettix in its more compact shorter boe
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