Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . Photos by] Long-horned Grasshoppers. [ir. /. Liia^s, , ami E. Stefy, The two upper figures are of the great shielded grasshopper of New Guinea, male and female, much reduced in size. The lower two arewingless forms : that on the left being a female of Peters hetrodes from .\frica, with strong spines along the margin of the fore-body. To theright is the marbled diastremmena, which has recently become established greenhouses, having been unintentionally introducedwith plants from Japan. Note the great le
Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . Photos by] Long-horned Grasshoppers. [ir. /. Liia^s, , ami E. Stefy, The two upper figures are of the great shielded grasshopper of New Guinea, male and female, much reduced in size. The lower two arewingless forms : that on the left being a female of Peters hetrodes from .\frica, with strong spines along the margin of the fore-body. To theright is the marbled diastremmena, which has recently become established greenhouses, having been unintentionally introducedwith plants from Japan. Note the great length of the thread-like antenn:r. 153 154 Marvels of Insect Life,. I HE lUsir (hi; III [H. Ba A common, brown-coloured long-horn, whose favourite haunt is abouthedgerows. The present photograph is that of the female, indicated bythe sword-shaped egg-placer. green colour, and so beautifullvveined as to imitate closely someof the large shining tropical body is short, and terminatedin the female bv a long, curved,sword-like ovipositor, and the legsare all long and strongly Insects are sluggish in theirmotion, depending for safetv ontheir resemblance to foliage, theirhorny shield and wing-coverts, andtheir spiny legs. But probably the most re-markable of these protected grass-hoppers is a small species,^ onlya third of an inch long, that isfound in the Sudan. With themajority of observers it wouldeasily pass for an ant, and theinference is that ants are abundantwhere it lives, and this disguise has been brought about as a means ofpreserving a wingless race of grasshoppers from attack by ants. One of thecharacters of grasshopper st
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