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592 n:^uroptera. 



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 although in part characterizing the Mantispids, and which are 

 ill complete harmony with the Orthopterous type." (American 

 Journal of Science and Arts, 1864, p. 33.) 



Professor Dana farther states " that in the 

 broad costate femurs of the second pair of 

 legs and the form of the prothorax, it ap- 

 proaches the Orthopters of the Phyllium 

 family, and is very unlike anj- known Neu- 

 ropters. The anterior legs are peculiar in 

 having a large and broad femur armed above 

 with very slender spines as long as the joint, 

 three of which, though mutilated, are seen in 

 the specimen. But something of this kind 

 is observed under Neuropters in the Mantis- 

 pids. It is quite probable that these anterior 

 Fig. 574. legs were prehensile, as in Mantispa, and the; 



fact that the tibia and tarsus are not in sight in the specimen, 

 favors this conclusion. . . . There appears to have been a pair 

 of short obtuse appendages at the extremity of the abdomen. 



much as in Phyllium. The 

 head is mostl}' obliterated." 

 Mr. S. H. Scudder in tlie 

 Memoirs of the Boston So- 

 i lety of Natural Histor}'^" for 

 1<SC7, shows that the vena- 

 iion of- this genus recalls fea- 

 tures of several other Neu- 

 n 'pterous families, such as the 

 Termitidce, the Hemerv- 

 b I d ce and Sialidce. 



Mr. Scudder, who has given 

 a restoration of this remark- 

 able insect, states tliat the 

 head is somewhat like that of 







Fig. 575. 



Perla, being oval, depressed, with long oval lateral eyes. 

 These two authors disagree as to the "fore legs" (Dana), Mr. 

 Scudder calling the parts so designated by Professor Dana, 

 the head. Gerstaecker states his opinion that Miamia is 

 ' without doubt a Perlarian." 



