Theo. Can-eras. 



'' '' PRAYING INSECTS. 



Four distinct kinds of Mantis are shown in this picture. They all adopt the same reverent aspect when waiting for victims, but it is 

 "Drevin'^" instead of "praving " in which they are engaged. One of them, represented on the right-hand side of our plate, is known as 

 the Diabolical Mantis. Its foreparts are so coloured as to resemble a flower, which insects come to visit, only to be caught by the 



terrible claspers and devoured. 



