Bird Grasshopper

This Bird Grasshopper (or Giant Grasshopper) is from the Family Acrididae and it looks like a penultimate instar nymph. My first photo is cropped to show the development stage of the wings. I find that fully grown adult grasshoppers, of this kind, are much easier to identify than the nymphs which all tend to look very similar. I think that the grasshopper in my photos is from the Genus Valanga or the Genus Melicodes. If it is still around in our front yard when it becomes adult, I might be able to provide a better I.D.