The Walking Leaf. 
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whence their English name. They are found in the 
East Indies and China. 
The ordinary Mantides, or Praying Insects, as they are 
sometimes called, from their apparently devotional atti- 
tudes, resemble the species just described in their general 
structure, but are seldom furnished with so long a neck 
and so leaf-like a body. They carry the head erect, 
and the long fore-feet, which shut together like a clasp- 
knife, are used in catching their prey ; it is while thus 
engaged that their postures have been considered to 
resemble an attitude of devotion. 
THE WALKING LEAF, (Phyllium siccifolium,) 
Has a shorter neck than the Mantis, and its fore-legs are 
