CHAPTER IV. 



WALKING-STICKS AND WALKING- LEAVES (PHASMID/E) 



continued. 



FiG. 14. Acrophylla titan. 



Marvellous Imitative Resemblance. 



WE come now to speak of that wonderful characteristic 

 of the Phasmidae, which renders them amongst the most 

 singular of known insects, which is most likely to attract 

 the stranger, from which they have been given their 

 names their imitative resemblance to vegetative objects. 



