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hollow beak, terminating in a point which encloses the tongue, and serves as a guard or fence to secure 

 it from external injuries. Thorax and legs orange brown. Abdomen probably of a dark mazarine 

 blue [?] when the insect was living, but is now of a dead black. Wings brown, opake, and shining. 



PHASMA (PLATYCRANA) JAMAICENSIS. 



Plate XLIX. fig. 1. 



Order: Orthoptera. Section: Cursoria. Family: Phasmida?. 



Genus. P h asm a, Fabr. Mantis, Driinj. Subgenus: Platycrana, Gra;/. 



Phasma (Platvcrana) JAMAICENSIS. Linearis viridis, alis pallide roseis costa tenui viridi. (Long. Corp. 



3 uuc. 6 lin. ) 

 SvN. Mantis Jamaicensis, Drurj/, App.vol.2. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3.15.11. (Mantis J.) Graij Syn. Phasm. 



p. 38. (Platvcrana J.) 

 Habitat: Jamaica. 



Head green. Eyes small and black. Antennae filifoi-m and long. Thorax and abdomen green, 

 long, and slender. Tegmina very small, and striped with green, the anterior edges being yellow. Wings 

 very thin and membraneous, being of a pale blush or pink colour ; but along the anterior edges are thick 

 and green. Legs green ; but at the articulations are of a yellowish hue. Femora furnished with spines ; 

 those on the fore ones being smallest. Tarsi of the ordinary form. 



MANTIS CINGULATA. 



Plate XLIX. fig. 2. 



Order: Orthoptera. Section: Cursoria Family: Mantidae. 

 Genus. Mantis, Linn. ^c. 



Mantis Cingulata. Luteo-fusea, clytris subolivaceis niacidis duabus obliquis discoidalibus, alis fuscis basi et 

 versus apicem pallidioribus, abdomiue pallido nigTo annulate. (Long. Corp. 2 unc. 9 lin.) 



Syn. Mantis Cingulata, Drury, App. vol. 2. 



Mantis Domingensis, Pa/. Bemw. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer. Orthopt. pi. 12./. 2. ? 



Habitat : Jamaica. 



Head brown yellow. Eyes rounded, and distant. Antenna (in Drury's specimen) wanting. Thorax 

 long and slender, flat at bottom and rounded at top. Tegmina pale greenish colour, with a nerve 

 numing down the middle like the leaf of a tree, extending, when closed, the length of the abdomen, being 

 margined along the edges. Wings very thin and brown ; but along the anterior edges thick and yellow. 

 Abdomen yellowish, with black rings, and broad at the middle, but narrow where it joins the thorax. 

 Fore legs yellow brown, with a black spot at the tips of the femora on the inner side. Trochanters flat 

 and thin. Femora furnished with two rows of spines, and a groove between them to receive the tibiae, 

 which are furnished at the extremity with a strong spine bending inwardly, and likewise on each side 

 with a row of small and shorter spines, regularly placed and very even. From this articulation proceed 

 the slender tarsi, the first joint being the longest. The middle legs have a small flap, or membrane, 

 placed near the tips of the tibia:, on the first articulation of the bearers ; with two small spines at the 

 joints of the same articulations, both of these and the hinder legs. 



