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TRUE TALES OF THE INSECTS. 



where they hatched, and the living insects were under 

 the observation of the late Mr. Andrew Murray for 

 nearly eighteen months in the Royal Botanic Garden. 



to search in 

 g u i s h P h y 1 - 

 su r rou nd i nof 

 Murray says of 

 greatest period 

 exactly resem- 

 which it fed, 

 visitors were 

 usually, after 

 fully over the 

 nute or two, 

 they could see 

 had then to be 

 pointed out to 

 though seeing 

 said to be be- 

 looked so abso- 

 as the leaves 

 rested that this 

 fied them, and 



Strangers used 



vain to distin- 

 lium from the 

 leaves. Mr. 

 one : " For the 

 of its life it so 

 bled the leaf on 

 that ^\' h e n 

 shown it they 

 looking care- 

 plant for a mi- 

 declared that 

 no insect. It 

 more minutely 

 them ; and al- 

 is notoriously 

 1 i e V i ng, it 

 lutely the same 

 among which it 

 test rarely satis- 



FiG. 17. — Graeffea coccophagns 



nothing would convince them that there was a real live 

 insect there but the test of touch. It liad to be stirred 

 up to make it move." 



The same was true of some specimens exhibited alive 



