Observations on the habits and natural surroundings of insects made during the 'Skeat expedition' to the Malay peninsula, 1899-1900 / by Nelson Annandale.
- Nelson Annandale
- Date:
- 1900
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Observations on the habits and natural surroundings of insects made during the 'Skeat expedition' to the Malay peninsula, 1899-1900 / by Nelson Annandale. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Patalung at the end of March, and not yet completely passed at Aring in the middle of September; but possibly the flowering- season do-s not exactly coincide in the two districts. 1 kitow 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 A ring, a village in the Ulu Lebeh district of Kelantaii— 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 Ehododendron ” {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 swaying slowly from side to side; aud it was not for several seconds that I realized that the moving Fig. 2. Pupa of Hymenopus hicornis 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 tbe expansions of the femora of tbe 3rd pair of legs. The head and fore limbs are slightly out of focus, and part of the bar on tlie thorax appears behind them. This photograph shows the ditference in shape between the expansions on the legs of the Mantis and tbe petals of the flower. [5]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22406451_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
