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MY STUDIO NEIGHBORS 



neath the edge of the wings, a third more slender 

 pair being concealed behind, ready for immediate 

 use in association with these buzzina: winsfs when 

 the whim of the midget prompts it to leap. 



This insect is the 

 tree -hopper, and is 

 but one of many 

 equally curious and 

 mimetic species 

 to be found 

 among the 



smaller branches of va- 

 rious trees and shrubs. 

 Our largest membra- 

 cis is to be seen — with 

 difificulty — on the ter- 

 minal twigs of the lo- 

 cust-tree, its outlines 



so exactly imitating the thorny growths of the 

 branch as to escape detection even by the closest 

 scrutiny. Another remarkable species is a pro- 

 tege of the oak, so closely simulating the warty 

 bark of the smaller branches upon which it is 



