INSECTS. 
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Leaf-Butterflies (Xad/ima).—When on the wing the 
East Indian Kallima paralekta presents a brilliant purple 
color, but when it alights it seems to disappear from view, 
Fic. 170,—The protective resemblance of the leaf-butterfly (Ka/iima). (Af- 
ter Wallace.) 
so exactly resembling a leaf (Fig. 170) that persons fail to 
see it when within a few inches. The tail of the hind- 
