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Show 1900.] INSECTS OF THE "SKEAT EXPEDITION." 841 Patalung at the end of March, and not yet completely passed at Aring in the middle of September; but possibly the flowering-season does not exactly coincide iu the two districts. 1 know of no other flower at all like it in the jungle of lower Siam. A rarer species of the same genus, very similar in general appearance, is found in the clearings. Habits and Attitude.-The only specimen which I obtained was caught about midday on August 17th in a buffalo-lawn near Kampong Aring, a village in the Ulu Lebeh district of Kelantan- that is to say, almost at the centre of the broad part of the Malay Peninsula. I was attracted to a bush of the "Straits Rhododendron7' (Melastoma polyanthum) by a curious movement among the flowers of a large inflorescence at the height of about five feet above the ground. On a cursory examination I could only see that one of the flowers-so it appeared-was sw7aying slowly from side to side; and it was not for several seconds that I realized that the moving Fig. 2. Pupn of Hymenopus bicornis on inflorescence of Melastoma polyanthum. (Photographed from life.) The same specimen as in figure 1, viewed from above, showing the dotted lines on the dorsal surface of the abdomen and the bruise-like markings on the expansions of the femora of the 3rd pair of legs. The head and fore limbs are slightly out of focus, and part of the bar on the thorax appears behind them. This photograph shows the difference in shape between the expansions on the legs of the Mantis and the petals of the flower. |