Identifier: insectstheirlife00bastuoft (find matches)
Title: Insects : their life-histories and habits
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Bastin, Harold
Subjects: Insects
Publisher: London : T.C. & E.C. Jack
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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y ; while some—such as our owngreen hair-streak butterfly (Tliecla rubi)—resemble livingfoliage. But the most wonderful green leaf insectsbelong to the genus Phyllium, of the family Phasmidas.They are found only in the tropics of the Old World, andhave a peculiar penchant for island life. The females aremuch more leaf-like than the males because the tegmina,or fore-wings (usually reduced or absent in other membersof the family), are large and foliaceous. In both sexes,however, the body is greatly flattened, while its colour is avivid green which, when submitted to spectral analysis, issaid not to differ from that of the living leaf. It is evenrecorded that Mr. J. J. Lister, when in the Seychelles,brought away living specimens of Phyllium; and these,becoming short of food, nibbled pieces out of one another,just as they might have done out of leaves, . . . but con-fined their depredations to the leaf-like appendages andexpansions. Still more remarkable is the fact that the Plate XIX
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i otective Resemblance : Phyllium crurijolium (two females). Ceylon Plate XX

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