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TRUE TALES OF THE INSECTS. 



Singapore, at the extremity of the Malay Peninsula, 

 in Borneo, and Java ; dessicata belonging to the first 



class, in Ma- 

 lacca and 

 Java; and 

 Sumatra is 

 another island 

 that gives 

 birth to these 

 m a n t i d CE . 

 Their colour 

 dried is a 

 greenish yel- 

 low and brown 

 f e u i 1 1 e m o r t. 

 Among the 

 females espe- 

 cial 1 y, the 

 elytra have a 

 variable form, 



Fig. io. — Deroplatys tniiicata, from Borneo. 



being sometimes large, truncated, and rounded, some- 

 times longer and pointed, the edges, as we have 

 seen, often irregular, while the wings, coloured and fre- 

 quently ornamented with beautiful spots and arched 

 bands, may suddenly narrow into a kind of little tail, 

 reaching beyond the elytra in repose, as in t^'iLucaia. 

 The thighs of the second and third pair of legs carry at 



