340 TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. 



unfortunate moths that may admire it on account of its attitudes 

 of supphcation soon find out that instead of saying " Let us pray," 

 it says " Let us prey." 



The EmpiiscB are much handsomer than the insects of the 



METAMORTHOSKS OF Emptisii pauperatii. 



genus Mantis. They have a long, leaf- shaped projection on 

 their heads, short antennae, a very thin thorax, and their legs are 

 ornamented with curious leaf-like expansions. There is a very 

 pretty Empiisa, which lives in the Maritime Alps, and which is 



