less beautiful Chinese banana, 111 . Cavendishii, which I little, if any, of the injury to berries on the cranberry inner surface furnished with six series of complicated is short and stumpy in growth, but enormously prolibogs, while of the Locustidre, or long-horned grassteeth in longitudinal plates, for grinding up the food fico The related traveler's tree (Ravenala Madagas• 1 hoppers, the katydids are the main culprits, aided ocpassed from the crop. This is in strong contrast to the cariensis), is a common and striking feature of many casionally by a species of Orchelimum. simple structure seen in the grasshopper, and indicates Hawaiian gardens. Of the many showy flowering' The injury on cranberry bogs is always the same. very much greater abilities in the food-grinding line.shrubs, the beautiful Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis is one of The berry is eaten into from one side, the pulp is re-Beyond the gizzard is the long stomach, coiled twice. the commonest, and is used extensively for hedges. jected and only the seeds are taken. The berry soon and its capacity is two cropfuls, instead of only one One of the most striking hedges in the city, however, dries and shrivels up. The very fact that there is no half a cropful, as in the grasshopper. The intestines, is the famous one at Puna Hou college, which is 500 ft. variation in the injury points to the conclusion that large and small, are also comparatively much larger. long and composed of night blooming cereus. I was only one or a few very closely allied species can be re-At the mouth of the stomach, instead of six crecal tubes, not fortunate enough to see this when it was in full sponsible for it, because it would be a decidedly un-there are two large pouches, overlying the gizzard, flower, but I saw a photograph of it when it was esti-usual thing for insects of different families, differing als0 also crowded with food, and with a function probably mated that there were about 8,000 flowers at one time. anatomically, to have so exactly the same food habits. much the same as that of the crecal tubes. With such Of the fruit trees ordinarily grown, the followingThe remedies recommended are clean bogs, ditches essentially different feeding and digestive systems, it may be mentioned. The mango is a very handsome surrounding the bogs, clean cultivation, use of nets to would be strange indeed if both grasshoppers and tree with dense dark green foliage and masses of yel-catch the insects.katydids had exactly the same food habits. With the low and reddish fruit on long hanging stalks. TheIn insects generally the digestive system begins katydid type, all the locusts examined by me agree in bread-fruit tree is common, both cultivated and wild, with a narrow tube from the mouth, called the msoph-: essential points. The difference is in the armature of and is a very beautiful tree of moderate size, with agus, oEening into a large pouch or crop, capable of. the gizzard, in which no two species are exactly alike. leaves looking like immense fig leaves, and the fruit great dllation, in...
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