enlarged view of the head, with the antennae, 

 and part of the thorax, and on the left, is an 

 enlarged view of an anterior foot. 



MANTISPA INTERRUPTA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wings hyaline, with a narrow ferruginous 

 costal margin, widely interrupted near the tip. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body pale : antennse, rather slender, perfectly 

 filiform, not differently coloured at tip, but some- 

 what paler at base: thorax^ anterior segment 

 rather long, annulate, with slightly elevated 

 obtuse lines, which give it a somewhat wrinkled 

 appearance ; two small tubercles before the mid- 

 dle, placed transversely ; posterior segment green- 

 ish-yellow, with a longitudinal brown line, and 

 another on each side above the wing: wings 

 alike, hyaline, the ferruginous costal margin is 

 narrow, interrupted beyond the carpus, so as to 

 leave only a spot at tip of the wing ; on the sub- 



PLATE VXX. 



