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'leaf' insects from BORNEO. 



but here the beetle is resting right in the middle of the 

 fungus, effectually concealed amongst the vegetation upon 

 which it feeds. There is a very fine group of these beetles 

 shewn in one of the 'Mimicry' cases in the Natural History 

 Museum at South Kensington. 



The leaflike Orthopteron, shewn in Fig. i6, illustrated 

 on page 218, is from Borneo, which, like other Malayan 

 and Australasian islands, has afforded a wealth of interesting 

 material for the entomologist. The fore wings are green, 

 with leaf-like veins and nervures, and there are two spots 

 upon them which are exactly like the fungus spots so 

 often found upon leaves, whilst the stiff-set legs have the 

 appearance of thorn-clothed brown twigs. Another very 

 similar insect, also from Borneo, is shewn in the next 

 illustration (Fig. 27,) the leaflike green wing having a 

 small round transparent patch, like a hole in a leaf. 



Fig. 27. ('/riiiit/riis jirrii/oliiis (Borneo.) 



Of the many butterflies and moths which have the 



