ORTHOPTERA. 9 
M. religiosa, L.; Rees., Insect. II, Gryll., 1, nu. So called 
from the position to which it raises its anterior legs or arms, 
which resembles that of supplication. The Turks entertain a 
religious respect for this animal, and another species is held in 
still greater veneration by the Hottentots: 
The M. religiosa, very common in the southern parts of 
France and in Italy, is two inches long, of a light green colour, 
sometimes brown and immaculate, the inner side of the ante- 
rior cox excepted, where we observe a yellow spot margined’ 
with black, a character which distinguishes it from an almost 
similar species from the Cape of Good Hope(1). 
In the others, the anterior legs resemble the following ones. - The 
eyes are simple, very indistinct, or null; and the first segment of the 
trunk is shorter, or at most as long as the following one. .The in- 
terior divisions of the igula are shorter than the others. The an- 
tenn are inserted before the eyes, and. the head is almost ovoid, 
projects, and has thick mandibles and compressed palpi. 
These Insects have singular forms resembling twigs ef trees or 
leaves. They appear to feed exclusively on vegetables, and like 
several Grylli are coloured like the plants on which theylive. There 
is frequently a great difference between the sexes. 
They form the subgenus 
*. 
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Spectrum, Stoll, 
Which has been again divided into two others(2). 
(1) For the other species, see Stoll, genus Mantis, or the Walking leaves, those 
excepted which are referable to the genus Phyllium. See also the Monog. Mant. 
of Lichtenst., Lin. Trans., VI; Palisot de Beauv., Insect. d’Afr. et d’Amer.; 
Herbst., Arch. Insect., and Charpent., Hor. Entom., p. 87—91. 
(2) MM. Lepeletier and Serville—Encyc. Méthod.—have added some new 
genera to those indicated by me in my Fam. Nat. du Regne Animal. In some, 
the prothorax is much shorter than the mesothorax; the body and legs are long 
and linear. The elytra, when there are any, are very short in both sexes. Those 
which are apterous form two genera: Bacrrius, where the antenne are very 
short, granose, and subulate; and Bacrerta, where they are much longer than the 
head, and setaceous. The second division comprehends species furnished with 
wings and elytra at least in one of the sexes. Here we find no simple eyes: such 
are the genera Crapoxerus, where the legs are equally remote, and Uyrno- 
crana, where the four last are more approximated. There (PHasma) we observe 
simple eyes. : 
In the others, the body is more or less oval or oblong and flattened, but not 
linear. The legs are short or but slightly elongated and foliaceous. The length 
of the prothorax equals at least half that of the mesothorax. The abdomen is 
rhomboidal and in the form of a spatula. There are no simple eyes, and the fe- 
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