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closed, beyond the abdomen. Wings green, transparent, towards the tips brownish, being near the 

 same length as their eases. Abdomen about the length of the thorax, and near the extremity three 

 times its breadth. Fore legs brownish yellow, with dark spots on them. Trochanters terminating in a 

 thick spine ; femora on the outer side furnished with two rows of spines, and a deep groove between 

 them, which seems foniied for receiving the tibiae when closed up, like as the blade of a razor is 

 received in the haft. Tibiae furnished at the extremity with a strong spine, bending inwards, from 

 whence the tarsi arise. Middle and hinder legs furnished with two spines at the tips of the tibise, and 

 at the tips of the femora with one ; having four small membranes almost joining to them. 



This insect has been considered bv all vs^riters as identical with the Linnsean Mantis 

 pectinicornis ; but as that insect is described by Linnaeus as an inhabitant of China, and 

 the former as found in Jamaica, I have thought it more correct to restore the name of 

 pectinicornis to the Linnsean insect, and give that figured by Drury another denomination. 



EMPUSA GONGYLODES. 



Plate L. fig. 2. 



Order: Orthoptera. Section: Cursoria. Family: MantidiE. 



Genus. Empusa, Latr. Serv. Gongylus, Thunberg. Mantis, Fabr. Drury. 



Empusa Gongylodes. Cajiite subulato, prothorace autice dilatato, troclianteribus antiois spini, femoribua 

 qu^tuor posticis lobo tenniiiatis. (Long. Corj). 3 unc. 4^ lin.) 



Syn. Mantis Gongylodes, Linn Syst. Nat. 1. 2. 690. 4. Stall. Mant. t. 16./. 58. 69. 61. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 



2. 17. 17. Serville Revis. Orthopt. 21. Roesel. Ins. 2. Gryll. tab. 7 

 Habitat: Madras (and Pliiladelphia, sed ? Drury). Africa, Asia. (Fabricius), East India (Serville). 



Head yellow, exactly resembling the colour of a withered leaf, and inclining downwards; tenninating 

 at top in a spine, with a small membrane on each side. Antennae short, and thread-like ; about the 

 length of the head. Thorax very slender, flat at bottom, rounded at top, and grooved on the sides ; 

 being about the length of the abdomen, exactly representing a twig of a tree, being furnished on each 

 side next the head with a thin yellow membrane of an angulated shape. Tegmina yellow, about two- 

 thirds the length of the abdomen ; the edges are margined, and the principal tendons by which they 

 are united to the body extend like the rib of a leaf from the base to the extremity ; several other smaller 

 ribs or tendons branching out from the first, make them the exact figures of the leaves of trees. Wings 

 green and transparent, except on the anterior edges, and rather shorter than the tegmina. Abdomen 

 yellow, broad towards the extremity, but where it joins the thorax it is narrow, terminating at the anus in 

 a short point ; having two smaller ones above it on the last seginent but one. Middle and hind legs 

 greyish brown, and shaped exactly like the twig of a tree ; the former being furnished at the tips of the 

 tibiae with three small spines, and the latter with two ; each of the femora has a single spine to it, and 

 close thereto are placed three membranes ; two on the fore part, smaller than that behind, which is 

 circular and remarkably thin. Fore legs yellow, with brown spots or clouds on them. Trochanters 

 flat and thin, and ending in a short strong spine, a little crooked. Femora broad, and on the outer 

 side thick and hollow, with two rows of spines ; but on the inner side very thin and smooth. Tibiae 

 joining to the shins, long and triangular ; the under side being hollow, and furnished with two rows of 



