Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . mooth, without the projecting segments, and he is furnishedwith a pair of exceedingly ample and very delicate , so totally different are the two sexes, that at first sightit seems scarcely possible to realize the facl that they belong tothe same species, particularly when the wings of the male areexpanded. The colour of the insect is emerald green. The osa is moreglobular than oval, and at one end there is a projecting pointwhich marks the operculum or moveable door which per
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . mooth, without the projecting segments, and he is furnishedwith a pair of exceedingly ample and very delicate , so totally different are the two sexes, that at first sightit seems scarcely possible to realize the facl that they belong tothe same species, particularly when the wings of the male areexpanded. The colour of the insect is emerald green. The osa is moreglobular than oval, and at one end there is a projecting pointwhich marks the operculum or moveable door which permits THE PLATYCRANIA. 313 the young to escape when hatched. The larva of this insect isquite as different from the perfect male or female, as they arefrom each other, and bears a curiously close resemblance to thePkyllonemia paradoxa, which has been described on page is a native of Australia. The very rare insect which is here shown is a native of is only one specimen in the British Museum. It is aboutfour inches in length, the illustration being drawn half the sizeof the real Flo. 156.—Platynaiiia plielrius.(Green.) The generic name Platycrania, or wide-skulled, refers tothe shape of the head, which is rather broader than is generallythe case with the Phasmidas. The body is very smooth, and theupper surface of the thorax rises into a bold longitudinal is often the case with these insects, the wings are morebeautiful than the body—that and the elytra being green, whilethe gauzy wings are bright yellow. Several species of Platycrania inhabit India; and there is aneatable species, Platycrania cdulis, found in Ceram. 314 INSECTS ABROAD. Tin: remarkable being which is shown below is the best knownof those creatures which are popularly designated as Leaf Insects,in consequence of the almost exact resemblance which they bearto Leaves. If the reader will imagine that the insect in question is of abright leaf-green, he will see how close is the r
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