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MODERN CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 



The second section, Raptoria, comprises the single family Man- 

 tidjE, a tribe of insects none of which are indigenous, being chiefly in- 

 habitants of tropical countries, and which have received the name of 

 soothsayers, from their curious motions, as well as camel crickets, 



Fig. 52. 



from the great length of the neck (Jiff. 52. l. Mantis religiosa, South 

 of Europe). The body is long and narrow, subcylindrical, with the 

 head exposed, and the abdomen broader than the front of the body, 

 and depressed. The head is not concealed beneath the thoracic 

 shield, as in the Blattte : it is vertical, with the face (Jiff. 52. 2,, 

 52. 3. under side of head) triangular ; the eyes are large, and oc- 

 cupy the sides of the head ; the ocelli, three in number, are placed 



* BiBLioGR. References to the Mantid^. 



Brei/nius. Phil. Trans, torn. xxiv. 



Poiret. Observ. sur le Mante, Journ. de Physique, torn. xxv. 



Stall. Representations, &c. 1780 — 1788. 



Leach. Zool. Misc. vol. i. 



Thunherg. Mem. Acad. Sc. St. Petersb. vol. v. — Ditto, Dissert. Entomol. 1784. 



Savigny. Description de I'Egypte. 



Draparnaud. Note sur le Mantis oratoria et religiosa, Bull. Soc. Phil. t. iii. 



No. 57. 

 Lichtenstein. Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. vi. 

 jlhrens. Faun. Ins. Eur. 



liamhur. Faun. Entomolog. Andalusia, 1838. 

 Charpentier. Hora- Entomologicffi. — Ditto, in Silbermann. Rev, Entomol. 18. 



(Etnpusa). 

 Serville, in Ann. Sc. Nat. torn, xxii Ditto in Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1837. (Tox- 



odera). 

 JLefehvre, in Ann. Soc, Ent. France, torn. iv. 

 Obs. Phys. Med. Acad. Natur. Curios, torn. ii. and iii. 

 MacLeay. App. King's Voyage. 

 Palisot Beauvois, Drtmj, Kirhy (Century), Brullt (Morea), Fubrichis, Olivier. 



