238 SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT. 



pretty broad. The anterior legs are long and thick, 

 light brown clouded with dusky, the trochanters 

 without a terminal spine; middle and hinder legs 

 with a heart-shaped expansion near the apex of the 

 thighs, and another of smaller size behind the middle 

 of the tibiee ; the ktter armed with two spines at the 

 tip. 



This insect is a native of Tranquebar and other 

 places on the Coromandel coast. 



FAM. PHASMIDJE. 

 ALTHOUGH formerly confounded under the same 

 name, the differences between Phasma and Mantis 

 seem to be even more than generic, and sufficient to 

 justify the establishment of two separate families 

 The spectres indeed, at first sight, appear to owr 

 but little connection with any other insect, their 

 facies or general aspect being altogether peculiar 

 It is not till after a pretty careful examination o 

 their structure that their relations become apparent 

 This is particularly the case with the apterous species 

 in which the essential characters appear, as it were 

 in such a disguise, that on a cursory inspection doubt 

 may be entertained even about the order to which 

 they belong. Some of the winged species, however 

 shew a more obvious affinity to the tribes with whicl 

 they are usually associated. 



This family is at once distinguished from the pre- 

 ceding one by all the legs being of equal dimensions 

 or nearly so. The head is large, rounded-oval, anc 

 usually borne somewhat horizontally ; the antenna 



