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has its two hindmost legs greatly lengthened, and furnished 
with brushes: one I saw on a branch was flourishing these in 
the air, and I thought at first they were two black flies hover- 
ing over the branch, my attention being taken from the body 
of the beetle by the movement of the brushes. 
Another fine longicorn, figured in Plate, Deliathis nivea, 
looks as if made of pure white porcelain spotted with black. 
LEAF INSECT 
It is a rare beetle, one or two specimens each season being 
generally all that are taken. It is usually found on the 
leaves of young trees from twelve to twenty feet from the 
ground. I have taken the rather heavy-bodied female by 
throwing a stone at it and causing it to fall within reach, but 
the male is more active on the wing, and it was long before I 
obtained a specimen. 
Amongst the insects of Chontales none are more worthy of 
notice than the many curious species of Orthoptera that look 
like green and faded leaves of trees. I have already de- 
scribed one species that resembles a green leaf, and so much 
