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The Living Animals of the World 



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The lartiest insect 



STICK-ISSECT. 



known iy a species uf stick-insect ; it is a native fif 

 Borneo, and nieasui es 13 incijes. 



Natives of the East 



\VAI,KIX(; LEAF-INSEC'I'f 



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es, and reniarkal.le for theiv lesen.l.lance to ktcoo 

 leaves. 



incurved at the extremity. There are two 

 varieties, in one of which the forceps is 

 twice as long as in the other ; but inter- 

 mediate gradations do not seem to be met 

 with. In the female the forceps is narrow, 

 nearly straight, and a2:)proximating. The 

 earwig is a nocturnal insect, and hides itself 

 during the day in large-headed flowers, like 

 dalilias, to which it is very destructive, or 

 in any convenient dark and narrow crevice, 

 especially among decaying vegetable matter. 

 It derives its name from its occasionally 

 entering the human ear, but it may be 

 easily driven out by dropping in a little olive 

 oil. In most books it is denied that earwigs 

 enter the ear at all, but it is, nevertheless, 

 an undoubted fact ; and the fanciful deriva- 

 tion that has been suggested of eanuing in 

 the place of earivig cannot be entertained 

 respecting an insect which seldom shows its 

 wings at all. It should be noted that the 

 female earwig is said to tend her young 

 very much as a hen tends her chickens — an 

 uncommon habit in insects. 



The Common Cockroach is too well 

 known to need description. The individuals 

 witlr half-developed wings are the perfect 

 females ; but there are other species in which 

 the wings are fuUy developed in both sexes, 

 others in which the male is winged and 

 tlie female wingless, and others again in 

 which both sexes are wingless. In warm 

 countries and on ship-ljoard cockroaches are 

 far more troublesome than in cold climes ; 

 and the large brown ones, with a mark on 

 the back of the thorax resembling a crown, 

 and very broad wing-cases and wings, are 

 called Dkummeks in the West Indies, from 

 the loud noise they keep up during the 

 night. 



Lady Burton has gi\'en an amusing 

 account of her introduction to cockroaches 

 abroad : '• After two days we were given a 

 very pleasant suite of roours — bedroom, 

 dining- and drawing-room — with wide windows 

 overlooking the Tagus and a great part 

 of Lisbon. These quarters were, however, 

 not without drawbacks, for here occurred an 

 incident which gave me a foretaste of the 

 sort of tiling I was to expect in Brazil. 

 Our bedroom was a large whitewashed place ; 

 there were three holes in the wall, one at 



