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RAPHIDIA. 
by a bifid tip: the wings are large, reticulated, 
and semitransparent. It is a native of North- 
America. 
Raphidia Mantispa is a small species, but little 
superior in size to the R. Ophiopsis, and is a na- 
tive of some of the warmer parts of Europe. It 
has the habit of the genus Mantis, and it is even 
doubtful whether it should not more properly be 
referred to that genus than to the present. 
