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head, and having an acute angle on each side. Teg- 

 mina yellow inclining to brown, especially towards 

 the anterior margin, covering about two-thirds of the 

 abdomen when closed ; wings small, thin, and trans- 

 parent, pale or light green. Abdomen yellowish brown, 

 flat, much widened at the hinder extremity, and ter- 

 minating behind in a triangular point, the sides waved 

 and a little turned upwards. The anterior legs are 

 nearly of the same colour as the head and thorax, 

 slightly clouded with dark brown, the thighs very 

 much thickened, and the trochanters, which are long, 

 thin, and flat, terminating in a strong slightly curved 

 spine ; the other legs slender and greyish brown, each 

 with a foliaceous expansion near the tip of the thighs, 

 somewhat heart-shaped, and divided into two acute 

 angles anteriorly; tibiae of the middle legs terminat- 

 ing in three small spines, those of the hinder legs in 

 two. 



EMPUSA LOBIPES. 



PLATE X. Fig. 2. 



Mantis lobipes, Lichen. Linn. Trans, vi. p. 23. M, undata, 



Fabr. StolVs Mant. PI. 8, fig. 30. 



NEARLY as large as the preceding, to which it bears 

 considerable resemblance. Head yellowish brown, 

 triangular, the forehead much produced, the eyes 

 round and very prominent ; antennae short. Thorax 

 the colour of the head, half the length of the whole 

 body, slender, margined on the sides, and a little 

 dilated behind the head; tegmina longer than the 

 abdomen, thin and transparent, wings hyaline, both 

 slightly streaked with green rays ; abdomen flat and 



