INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS. 97 



Upper Compartment. 



Larva of Ant-lion ; female of White Ant. 



Group 224.— NEUROPTEEA ODONATA. Dragon-flies, 

 LihellulidcB. 



Note the extraordinary length of body in Lestes 

 Lucretia, from the Cape of Good Hope ; also 

 the species from Borneo. British series, B. 

 CooKE and F. Brockholes. 



Order ORTHOPTERA. opdo^, straight ; Trrspov, a wing. 



Group 225.— Family PHASMID^. <pua-ix,a, a spectre. 



Walking-stick and Spectre insects, vegetable feeders, 

 chiefly found in India, China, South America, 

 and Australia. Observe Lonchodes virgeus, 

 which has the longest span of any known 

 insect ; also three species of genus Phyllium, 

 the Walking-leaf. 



Group 226.— Family MANTID^. f^tavxij, a devotee. 



Generally distributed in warm climates ; rapacious 

 insects, assuming, whilst on the watch for 

 prey, attitudes alluded to in the names Mantis 

 religiosa, Mantis oratoria, &c. 



% About 24 species illustrate the group. 



Group 227.— Family LOCUSTID^. Koxog, a troop. 



Tree-locusts. Rarely gregarious. Most of the 

 continental authorities agree in applying the 

 name ** Locust" to the species in this group, 

 distinguished by their long, slender antennae, 

 and by the sabre-like ovipositor of the female. 

 Either the Greek or the Latin derivation {locus 

 ustus, a scorched place) of the name would 



