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Scientific American, Vol. 23, No. 17 (1870) (1870)

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here- name of the leaf-insect. The female insect here represented tern, in which it had stood for several weeks, was found to tofore been attended with so much expense as to remove one has a large flat body with fine projecting edges, and when of the strongest arguments in favor of the employment… … flies alight close to the mantis, or even upon ly made, and have been made to withstand a THE WALKING LEAF-INSECT. pressure of 400 pounds to the square inch. it, the clasped hands relax, and, in an instant, the unfortunate little insect is seized and crushed in the 2. A gallon of water which had…

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