CONTENTS. 



ORTHOPTERA. 



CURSOR! A. 

 CHAPTER 1. 



THE DEVIL'S RIDING-HORSE (MANTID^). 



" Devotional " attitude — Legends and superstitions arising therefrom — 

 Meaning of habit — The tiger, not the saint of the insect world — 

 Not only carnivorous, but pugnacious, and a cannibal — Voracity 

 not limited to insects — Modification of front legs — Their principal 

 function — Typical development of an insect's leg — Modification in 

 detail of leg of Mantis — The limb in repose — Its secondary func- 

 tions — The other legs — Modification of prothorax — Its remarkable 

 elongation and mobility — Development shows importance — Not 

 legs and thorax alone, whole organization in conformity with a 

 carnivorous life : head, sense-organs, etc., organs of flight — Atrophy 

 of wings — Coptopteryx females 



CHAPTER II. 



THE devil's riding-horse (mantid.e) — continued. 



Egg-laying and the egg-capsules — Capsule of Mantis religiosa j situa- 

 tion of eggs, subsidiary parts, consistency, explanation of manner 

 of formation — Capsules of other Mantidte — Parasites — Metamor- 

 phoses of Mantis — Emergence, appearance, and interesting life of 

 young — Development of organs of flight — Nymphs compared with 

 sub-apterous or apterous adults — Latter with apterous Phasmidae — 

 Protective and Aggressive resemblance — Modifications of forms in 



