. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 254 ORTHOPTERA beautifully simulate blossoms of different colours. And it has been stated by Dr. Wallace, on the authority of a communication made to him by Sir Charles Dilke, that a small Mantis found in Java exactly resembles a pink Orchis-flower, and this species " was not only said to attract Insects, but even the kind of Insects (but- terflies) which it allures and devours was men- ; We do not know of what species or genus this Insect may be, but Symenopus ticornis is a peculiar form of the tribe Harpagides, and has, to- gether wi
. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 254 ORTHOPTERA beautifully simulate blossoms of different colours. And it has been stated by Dr. Wallace, on the authority of a communication made to him by Sir Charles Dilke, that a small Mantis found in Java exactly resembles a pink Orchis-flower, and this species " was not only said to attract Insects, but even the kind of Insects (but- terflies) which it allures and devours was men- ; We do not know of what species or genus this Insect may be, but Symenopus ticornis is a peculiar form of the tribe Harpagides, and has, to- gether with its younger state, been figured long ago by Caspar StoU in his quaint and interest- ing old book.^ Though it has very peculiar foli- aceous expansions on the two hinder pairs of legs, these dilatations are very different from those seen in the curious Gongylus gongyloicles, the female of which we figure (Fig. 146). This latter, accord-. ing to the information Fig. 145.—Toxodera denticulata, male. Java. (After Serville.) we shall quote, is also a " floral ; Specimens of G. gongyloicles were shown to the members of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1877 by Dr. J. Anderson/ who at the same gave some information about them which we shall reproduce in full, because, incomplete as it is, it is apparently almost the sole piece of definite information we possess as to this curious Insect, or any of its congeners : " These Insects all came from the same locality, having been ' Afbeeldincjen der Spoken en ^oandelende Bladen, etc., Amsterdam, 1813. ^ P. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1877, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harmer, S. F. (Sidney Frederic), Sir, 1862- ed; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927. ed. [London, Macmillan and Co. , Limited; New York, The Macmi
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