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The Cimex Paradoxus, or Walking 

 Leaf. 



Dr. Sparman relates, that when at the 

 Cape, he observed this insect at noon-tide as 

 he sought for shelter among the branches of 

 a shrub from the intolerable heat of the sun. 

 —Though the air (says he) was extremely 

 still and calm, so as hardly to have shaken 

 an aspen leaf, yet I thought I saw a little 

 withered, pale, crumpled leaf, eaten as it 

 were by caterpillars, flittering from the tim 

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