INSECTA. 461 



STOLL gives to these insects the name of walking-leaves, by which how- 

 ever is usually understood the preceding genus PhyUium. 



Mantis L. (in part), FABR. (exclus. Mant. siccifolia). 



a) Antennae of males pectinate, of females setaceous. Head produced 

 into a horn. 



Empusa ILLIG. 



Sp. Mantis gongylodes L. and FABR. (fern. Mantis fldbellicornis FABR. male) ; 

 E<ESEL, Ins. ii. Locust. Tab. vn. ; STOLL, Spectr. PI. 16, figs. 58, 59. PI. 

 17, fig. 61; Bengal, Ceylon; Mantis pauperata FABR., Cuv. R. Ani. ed. 

 ill., Ins. PL 78, fig. i ; south of Europe, north of Africa, &c. 



Sub-genus Blepharis SERV. 



b) Antennas in both sexes simple ; head very often transverse, broad. 

 Mantis ILLIG. 



Sp. Mantis religiosa L., E(ESEL, Ins. n. Locust. Tab. i. n. Tom. iv. Tab. 

 xii.; PANZER, Deutschl. Ins. Heft 50, Tab. 8; Cuv. R. Ani. ed. ill., Ins. 

 PI. 78, fig. I ; in south of Germany, in France, and ojther parts of the 

 south of Europe, and also in Africa; Mantis oratorio, L., Mantis bella 

 SALZMAN, GERMAR, Faun. Ins. Europ. Fasc. vi. Tab. 16, South of 

 Europe, &c. 



Note. Several sub-genera, founded on the form of the prothorax, the 

 eyes, the feet, and other characters, are recorded by SERVILLE and BUR- 

 MEISTER, not always well defined : Eremopliila BURM. (Eremiaphila'L^FEE.), 

 MetalleuticaWESTW., CJweteessa BURM., Taracliodes BURM., Theoclytes SERV. 

 (Vates BURM.), Harpax SERV., Acanlhops SERV., Schizocephala SERV., and 

 others ; for which consult the authors cited above. 



Mantis strumaria L. (E(ESEL, Ins. n. Locust. Tab. in.), and similar 

 species with prothorax dilated, partly covering head, form the transition to 

 the Blattce. 



Family XLII. Blattarice. Tarsi with five joints. Head in- 

 ferior, covered by prothorax clypeiform. 



Blatta L. Body oval or orbicular, depressed. Antennas long, 

 setaceous. Ocelli obsolete. Maxillary palps elongate, with last 

 joint hatchet-shaped. Feet all similar, long, tibia? provided with 

 spinules moveable. Abdomen posteriorly supplied with two ap- 

 pendages conical, articulate. 



a) Each sex apterous. 



Sub-genus : Polyzosteria BURM. (Species of Blatta SERV.) 



b) Male winged, female apterous. 



Sub-genera: Perisphceria SERV., BURM., Heterogamia BURM. 

 (Species of Blatta SERVILLE.) 



