IN CAMP. 



means of protection and possibly in some 

 instances with a view to obtaining their 

 food, have taken on colourings and mark- 

 ings which give them a wonderful resem- 

 blance to the bark upon which they 

 reside and run about. All who have been 

 out in the jungles or even those whose 

 jungle lore is confined to that assimilated 

 in the garden will have noticed these 

 insects. One curious point about them 

 that I have observed is that they are 

 usually adorned with a tremendously 

 long pair of feelers as in the young cricket 

 shown here. The feelers in many insects 

 are supposed to be used as smelling and 

 sensitive organs, but why they should be 

 so exceptionally long as is the case in these 

 forms is open to considerable surmise. 



Whilst talking of tree insects we must 

 not forget one of the best known, and at 

 the same time the least known (to use an 

 Irishism) of them all in India. I refer to 

 the tree Cicada, that most curious insect 

 who, in order to assert his charms in 

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