Till: PSEl !><> VEUROPTERA. 



11*.* 



Other examples of Orl hoptera are Mantis (Fig. L43), the 

 curious leaf insed i Fig. I ll |,and the Btick insect ( Fig. 1 t5). 



Fia l II Leal Insect Phyl 



Half natural size. 





Order I. Platyptera. — The white ants live in stumps 

 ami fallen trees, and in the tropics do much harm by un- 



Fu». 146.— Dragon flj Dipl i 



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dermining the timbers of houses, and destroying furniture. 

 books, etc. Their colonies are very populous. In our white 

 ant there are. besides males and females, workers and 



