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are they particularly destructive to vegetation, though 

 belonging to the grasshopper family — the order Orthoptera. 

 My husband sent home a large collection of these leaf- 

 insects to the Zoological Gardens, and being just as curious 

 dried as when alive, they did not lose so much as do speci- 

 mens depending on colour in interest. 



