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THE NATURAL HISTORY [chap, xxxix. 



lodon ensifer) has the thorax covered by a large triangular 

 horny shield, two and a half inches long, with serrated 

 edges, a somewhat wavy, hollow surface, and a faint 

 median line, so as very closely to resemble a leaf. The 

 glossy wing-coverts (when fully expanded, more than nine 



THE UKEAT-SHIELDED liKASSHOPPEU. 



inches across) are of a fine green colour and so beautifully 

 veined as to imitate closely some of the large shining 

 tropical leaves. The body is short, and terminated in the 

 female by a long curved sword-like ovipositor (not seen 

 in the cut), and the legs are all long and strongly-spined. 

 These insects are sluggish in their motions, depending 



