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THE INSECT WOELD. 



which have for their principal types the Crickets, Locusts, and 

 Grasshoppers. 



All these insects resemble each other in the disproportion which 



Fig. 303. Phasma llossi male, female, and larva. 



exists between their hind-legs and the other pairs. Another 

 characteristic which is common to them consists in the song of the 

 males. This song, so well known, which seems to have for its 



