IN CAMP. 



Wonderfully similar is it in shape, 

 looks and colouring to its environment. 

 A close examination scarcely enables 

 our unaccustomed eye to distinguish 

 eyes or head or mouth; Which is the 

 headend? Only a movement discloses 

 it and the position of the legs for we 

 now see the front pair forward ly directed 

 and the two hindermost pairs pointing 

 backwards as shown on the grass stem 

 at the head of this Chapter. A wonder- 

 ful adaptation of nature and not acquired 

 to enable the insect to drop upon its 

 unwary prey, for these peculiar beings 

 are herbaceous feeders and defoliate trees 

 and plants. 



There is a record that the cocoanut 

 palms in Fiji and the Friendly Islands 

 have at times been completely defoliated 

 by one of these brutes, the inhabitants, 

 who largely depend on these trees for 

 their subsistence, being left to starve. 



Fancy a famine brought about by stick 

 insects ! We wonder what the little 

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