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Bizarre Shapes Galore. 



Almost all the foregoing forms are smooth-bodied, 

 or have merely little insignificant inequalities of skin. 

 But to increase the resemblance to vegetation, some of 

 these Phasmas have the oddest unequal surfaces imagi- 

 nable, so that they resemble the roughened bark of 

 the trees among which they live, or bits of rotten wood, 

 or lichen-covered bark. There are bizarre appearances 

 among them which defy description. They have grow- 

 ing to them or sprouting from them almost everywhere, 

 more especially from the abdomen and legs, delicate 

 small green processes or foliaceous excrescences, looking 

 exactly like the Hepatica^, or moss. They inhabit damp 

 forests both in the Malay Isles and America, and it 

 needs careful scrutiny to detect that the apparent piece 

 of rotten moss-grown twig is in reality a living insect. 

 See Ceroys laciniatus (Fig. 16) from Nicaragua ; how 

 these irregular leaf-like expansions protrude all over it ! 

 Could one wish for anything more grotesque than the 

 bulky, prickly, spiny, briefly-winged giant Heteropteryx, 

 from India, Borneo, Sumatra, and Australia, or than 

 a Peruvian Ceroys, typifying thorny stems } Or, turn 

 to the dilated-bodied spectre Extatosoma, hailing from 

 Australia, from Tasmania, and New Guinea, enormously 

 thick as compared with the males, and with both the 



