STRAIGHT- WING ED INSECTS. 



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between these insects are among the sports of the Chi- 

 nese, the pleasure being the same as that which is de- 

 rived from cock-fights and bull-fights. 



443. The family of the Ambulatoria is a very small 

 one, including those very singular animals, Walking- 

 sticks, Walking-leaves, etc. They lead a sluggish life 

 among the branches of shrubs, living on the young 

 shoots. Their color and shape being so much like those 

 of things around them, enable them commonly to escape 

 observation. Some of them, as the Walking-stick, Fig. 

 200, have no wings, and look like dead twigs, the legs 



Fig. 200. Walking-stick. 



appearing like little branches. There are found of thie 

 insect twenty species in South America, three in North 

 America, three in Europe, forty in Asia, twenty-seven in 

 Australia, and two in Africa. The Leaf Insect, Fig. 201 

 is of the same family. It is found in South America 



Fig. 201. The Leaf Insect. 



