Ch. XVII. ] EXTRAORDINARY DISGUISES. 



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The movements, as well as the shape and colour of 

 the insect imitated, are mimicked. I one day observed 

 what appeared to be a hornet, with brown semi-trans- 

 parent wings and yellow antennae. It ran along the 

 ground vibrating its wings and antennse exactly like a 

 hornet, and I caught it in my net, believing it to be one. 

 On examining it, however, I found it to belong to a 

 widely different order. It was one of the Hemiptera 

 (Spiniger luteicornis, Walk.), and had every part coloured 

 like the hornet (Priocnemis) that it resembled. In its 



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HORNET AXD illMETIO BUG. 



vibrating, coloured wing cases it departed greatly from 

 the normal character of the Hemiptera, and assumed 

 that of the hornets. 



All the insects that have special means of protection, 

 by which they are guarded from the attacks of insecti- 



