10 INSECTA. 
., Those species in which the body is filiform or Hneet resembling 
a ‘stick, are the’ 
Puasa, Fab. 
Several are altogether apterous, or have but very short elytra. 
Very large ones are found in the Moluccas and South America. 
The south of France produces the 
Ph. Rossia, Fab.; Ross., Faun. Etrusc., II, viii, 1. Both sexes 
apterous; yellowish green or cinereous brown; antenne very 
short, granose, and conical; legs ridged a tooth near the extre- 
mity of the thighs(1). 
Those in which the body, as well as the legs, i is much flattened , 
and membranous, compose the genus 
Puy.iiuy, Illig. 
Such for instance is the celebrated 
P. siccifolium; Mantis siccifolia, Lin. Fab.; Stoll, Spect., VIII, 
24—26. Extremely flats pale green, or yellowish; thorax short, 
with a dentated margin; dentated leaflets on the thighs. The 
female is furnished with very short antennz and elytra as long 
as the abdomen, but is destitute of wings. The male is narrower 
and more elongated, with long setaceous antennz, short elytra, 
and wings the length of the abdomen. 
This species is bred by the inhabitants of the Sechelles as an 
object of commerce. 
The male of another species is figured by Stoll, Mantes, pl. 
XXili, 89. 
males at least are furnished with elytra. This division comprises two genera: 
Prisorus, where the prothorax is shorter than the mesothorax, and. where both 
sexes are provided with elytra and wings that cover the greater part of their ab- 
domen; and Payzuium, where the prothorax is almost as long as the mesothorax; 
the females are destitute of wings and have very short antennz, while the males 
have long ones and are winged, but with very short elytra. These individuals 
having the prothorax very long, in a natural onder 7 we should reverse the series, 
and begin with Phyllium. ' 
(1) For the other species, see the figure of Stoll, genus Spectrum; Lichtenst., 
Monog. Mant.; Lin. Trans., VI, genus Phasma; Lin. Trans., XIV; Palis. de Beauv. 
Insect. d’Afr, et d’Amer, See also Gharpent., Hor. Entom., p- 93, 94. The two 
species of Phasma, described by the latter—rossiwm and gallicum—belong to the 
genus Bacillus, already mentioned. 
