THE PRAYING MANTIS. 



(MANTIS ORATORTA.) 



HE post has brought 

 me some odd things 

 from " foreign parts " 

 in the course of the 

 last few years, but never any- 

 thing quite so strange and weird 

 as a live specimen of the so- 

 called " praying mantis," which reached 

 me last winter. 

 This curious insect was sent from Mentone by 



