IN CAMP. 



The Leaf Insects are no less a source 

 of keen interest to naturalists than their 

 confreres of the sticks. That the great 

 ingenuity and trouble they have been 

 at through countless generations of 

 Darwinian minute transformations and 

 adaptations to arrive at their similitude 

 to leaves is most marvellous and praise- 

 worthy who can deny ! And you may 

 be tempted to ask why ! Why has 

 such tremendous trouble been taken ? 

 The reason in the case of the Stick 

 and Leaf Insects is of course entirely 

 one of self- protect ion. They feed out 

 in the open on trees and plants where, 

 but for their wonderful protective devices 

 in copying their surroundings, they 

 would be quickly snapped up by birds or 

 parasitised by insect foes. 



The world famous Leaf Insect, the 

 PhylHiim shown overleaf, closely resem- 

 bles in appearance and colouring a leaf 

 or one might say parts of several leaves. 

 You will notice that even the legs are 

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