STRAIGHT-WINGED INSECTS. 955 
‘between these insects are among the sports of the Chi- 
nese, the pleasure being the same as that which is de- 
rived from cock-fights and bull-fights. 
443. The family of the Ambulatoria is a very small 
one, including those very singular animals, Walking- 
sticks, Walking-leaves, etc. They lead a sluggish life 
among the branches of shrubs, living on the young 
shoots. Their color and shape being so much like those 
of things around them, enable them commonly to escape 
observation. Some of them, as the Walking-stick, Fig. 
200, have no wings, and look like dead twigs, the legs 
Fig. 200.—Walking-stick. 
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appearing like little branches. There are found of this 
insect twenty species in South America, three in North 
America, three in Europe, forty in Asia, twenty-seven in 
Australia, and two in Africa. The Leaf Insect, Fig. 201, 
is of the same family. It is found in South America. 
Fig. 201.—Tne Leaf Insect. 
