Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . upon pollen or nectar, or for securing as food other Insects that frequent the among the mantis famfly there is a remarkable species- found in India, which is called by the natives by a name signifying the rose-leaf Insect. It is about three and a-half inches long in the bod\^ and,leaving the legs out of consideration,mav be described as fiddle-shaped, theneck of the fiddle (the fore-bodyof the mantis) being very long andslender. The species has long beenknown in cabinets and from goodfigures in wor
Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . upon pollen or nectar, or for securing as food other Insects that frequent the among the mantis famfly there is a remarkable species- found in India, which is called by the natives by a name signifying the rose-leaf Insect. It is about three and a-half inches long in the bod\^ and,leaving the legs out of consideration,mav be described as fiddle-shaped, theneck of the fiddle (the fore-bodyof the mantis) being very long andslender. The species has long beenknown in cabinets and from goodfigures in works, but thedescriptions from such specimens werevery misleading. In recent vears wehave had the advantage of descriptionsdrawn by naturalists from livingexamples, and from those who haveseen it in its natural such conditions it is (]uit(> adifferent thing from the museumspecimens. The lore-body, just behindthe head, has ;i leaf-like expansion oneach side ; and the second and thirdpairs of legs have similar expansions - Ciongylus Photo by] Head of Kose-leaf Mantis. IHiirold Ihislin. The same aspect as in the preceding photograph, bnt with thefore-limbs partly extended and exhibiting tlie tenible spimsupon which its Insect victims are impaled wlien the foot is shutdown on the middle joint. 1 Pi()))liil;i casei. wI ,?rc^
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