WALKING-STICK INSECT. 
In this tribe of inserts there appear to be 
several families, considerably varying from 
each other. They are called Walking-Sticks, 
and WQ have not the smallest inclination to 
^iiarrei with the name ; thoiigh they might, 
certainly, have been raor^ specifically denomi- 
natedr -according to the peculiar species of 
Cane which they "respeckively most resemble. 
The animal which we have figvired, w'as 
drawn by Edwards, from the real inse6c; who 
says — " It is so much like a dry stick, that it 
is supposed to deceive birds, and other animals 
that prey on inserts. The thicker part of the 
insert, nearest the head, where the six legs are 
placed, is full of little pr-igkles, or thorns, Vik^ 
what arc observed on the branches of many 
sorts of shrubs and trees. The head resembles 
that of a Locust with two horns. It is di- 
vided Into joints the whole length of the bodv ; 
but the last joint, or division, which is the tail, 
s only half round, and hollow, appearing like 
:hc bark peeled off a stick. This was of a 
greenish 
