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{Pachytylus migratorius), known from its migrations 
in countless numbers, during which they destroy all 
vegetable life in the places they reach. There are 
also in this order the wonderful Leaf- and Stick- 
Insects (Phasmatidae), most interesting on account of 
their resemblance in form and colour to twigs and 
leaves, some being wingless, others well able to fly. 
A good number are here exhibited. 
It remains now to glance at the large animals 
standing on the top of the cases and suspended from 
the roof. 
Beginning again at the entrance door to the gallery, 
we see on the cabinets a flne Malayan Tapir ( Tapinis 
malayanus), which is perhaps the finest specimen in 
any museum. Then we see towering upwards a cast 
of the skeleton of the extinct Giant Ground-Sloth 
(Megatherium americanurri), made from the specimen 
in Madrid (the one on which Victor Scheffel made his 
famous poem) and the one in the possession of the 
Koyal College of Surgeons. Then we come to a 
Sumatran Khinoceros (Ceratorhinus sumatrensis), and 
above it an enormous example of a 
Ribbon-Fish (Regalecus argenteus) 
of over 15 feet in length, its greatest thickness, 
however, being only three inches. This remarkable 
specimen was taken near Dunedin, New Zealand, by 
Mr. Sullivan, to whom it had been reported as a “ Sea- 
Serpent.” Mr. Sullivan had it placed in the cold 
