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PIIASMID/E, OR 'stick' INSliCTS. 



simulators of mosses, fungi and lichens, being very 

 numerous in this order. 



Fig. 1 8 illustrates some of the PJiasmida from Ceylon, 

 Java, and Queensland, brown, dried-up looking animals, 

 much more like sticks than living creatures, and with them 

 are four small twigs upon which four of the insects are placed. 



Fig-. 18. A gfroiip of " Stick " insects from Queensland, Borneo, Ceylon, &e. 



A number of the simulating Orthoptera are shewn in 

 the next illustration. Fig 19. They include several species 

 of MantidcE ; Mantis religiosa, M. viridis, and others ; 

 some of the Triixilidtc from Africa, with both open and 

 closed wings, a young PJiylliuui siccifoliiun with brown 

 crumpled wings like dead and dried leaves, and two of the 

 large green coloured Trepidodera from Queensland. One 

 of these insects, T. Childreni, that on the right, shews the 

 transparent gauze-like hind wings partly exposed ; the 

 other is in the position of rest, with the wings closed and 



