T/ie Walking Leaf. 565 



whence their English name. They are found in the 

 East Indies and China. 



THE ordinary Mantides, or Praying Insects, as they are 

 sometimes called, from their apparently devotional atti- 

 tudes, resemble the species just described in their general 

 structure, but are seldom furnished with so long a neck 

 and so leaf-like a body. They carry the head erect, 

 and the long fore-feet, which shut together like a clasp- 

 knife, are used in catching their prey ; it is while thus 

 engaged that their postures have been considered to 

 resemble an attitude of devotion. 



THE WALKING LEAF, (Pliyllium siccifoUum,) 

 HAS a shorter neck than the Mantis, and its fore-legs are 



