The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . he thorax shorter, or of the samelength as the following; the interior divisions ofFig. , ia the act of , a fly, with a you„K one just haicu^d. ^^^ tonguelet shorter than the lateral; the an-tenna; inserted m front of the eyes, and the head nearly ovoid, porrected, with the mandibles thick, andthe palpi compressed. These insects are of very sin-gular form, and resemble either the twigs or leaves oftrees. They appear to feed only on vegetables,
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . he thorax shorter, or of the samelength as the following; the interior divisions ofFig. , ia the act of , a fly, with a you„K one just haicu^d. ^^^ tonguelet shorter than the lateral; the an-tenna; inserted m front of the eyes, and the head nearly ovoid, porrected, with the mandibles thick, andthe palpi compressed. These insects are of very sin-gular form, and resemble either the twigs or leaves oftrees. They appear to feed only on vegetables, and,like many of the Grasshoppers, their colours resemblethose of the plant on which they ordinarily reside;the two sexes often differ very widely from each form the subgenus Spectrum, Stoll,—Which has been divided into two , Fab., comprises the species which have thebody filiform or linear, similar to a stick, many ofwhich are entirely destitute of wings, or have the wing-covers very short. Many large species are found in theMoluccas, and South America. P. Rossia, Fab., the South of
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