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Karahidion (Fig. 160), a genus found in some of the islands of 

 the southern hemisphere, has the hind legs enormously thickened 

 in the male. Some Phasmids, e.g. Orxines zeuxis, have the hind 

 wings marked and coloured after the manner of butterflies or 

 moths. Lamponius laciniatus has an elaborately irregular out- 

 line, looking like a mass of moss, and some species of Bacteria 

 are so very slender that the linear body is scarcely equal in size 



Fig. 160. Earycantha {Karahidion) 

 australis, male. Lord Howe's 

 Island. (After Westwood.) 



Fig. ICl. Anisomorpha imrda- 

 lina. Chili. (After West- 

 wood. ) 



to one of the legs it bears. Among the most interesting forms 

 are the Insects for which the genera Agatliemera and Aniso- 

 morpha (Fig. 161) have been established ; they are remarkably 

 broad and short, have the mesothorax but little elongated, with 

 the tegmina attached to it in the form of two short, thick, 

 leathery lobes ; while the wings are seen as marks on the meta- 

 notum looking like a mere sculpture of the surface ; these Insects 



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