Note 4 — Chapter XIV · THE GREEN GRASSHOPPER
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Another Locustid, the Phaneroptera who carries a short yataghan bent into a reaping-hook (P. falcata, Scop.), has made up to me in part for my stud troubles. Repeatedly, but always under conditions which did not allow of completing my observation, I have caught her carrying the fertilizing-concern under the base of her sabre. It is a diaphanous, oval phial, measuring three or four millimetres4 and hanging from a crystal thread, a neck almost as long as the distended part. The insect does not touch it, but leaves the phial to dry up and shrivel where it is.5