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ARTICULATA. INSECTA. 



with the most savage ferocity, and with great skill, 

 guarding and cutting with the edge of the feet as 

 with sabres, and sometimes at a stroke one cleaves 

 the other through, or severs the head from the body, 



THE AMERICAN MANTIS (M. Carolina). 



when the vanquished is instantly devoured.* Some 

 of this tribe have been called Walking Leaves, the 

 thorax, thighs, and body being furnished with broad 

 margins, toothed at the edge, and coloured like a 

 dry leaf. 



* Rosel. 



