INSECTS. HEMIPTERA. 59. Mantis. 



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Lateralis. Linear, black ; wing-cafes very fhort, gibbous, yeilowifh. 

 at the fides. 



Inhabits Brafth 



Anntennae longer than the body, black : thorax yeilowifh at the 

 fides : wing-cafes with a raifed tooth in the middle : wings 

 large black, edged with yellow : breaft pale : legs black. 



Aurita. Head and thorax fpinous : wing-cafes with a fubcompreffed 

 tubercle in the middle. 

 Inhabits East India* 



Antennae as long as the body, varied with black and white : head 

 brown, with numerous fharp fpines : thorax brown fpinous : 

 wing-cafes concave, very fhort: wings large duiky with a broad 

 pale rufous border on the outer edge, fpotted with black, and 

 marked with a broad white band ; legs fimple. 



Uncarts. Linear, brown : wing-cafes very fhort, fubfpinous at the 

 bafe. 

 Inhabits India. 



Antennae as long as the body : wings long rounded Brown : fore- 

 thighs membranaceous. 



Rofea* Linear, green : front fulvous : wing-cafes very fhort, 1- 

 fpincd : wings rofy with a green rib. 



Inhabits Eaf India; fmall. 



Antenna longer than the body, brown with 3 or 4 white rings : 

 thorax (mootix linear greenifh: wing-cafes vaulted with a black 

 thick fpine in the middle 1 wings ftriate : legs yellow. 



Flahllkor- Thorax dilated and membranaceous at the tip : fore-thighs 

 »"• terminating in a fpine, the reft in a lobe : antenna? 



pedinate. 

 Inhabits Tranquebar ; fize ofM. gongy lodes. 

 Antennae large, very much feathered and fetaceous at the tip : 

 /*?«/ projecting, narrower in the middle, notched at the tip: 

 legs as in M. gongylodes : wing cafes and wings longer than 

 the body, dufky, fubpellucld and dilated at the anterior mar- 

 gin. 



Gongylodes. Thorax dilated each fide at tbe tip : fore-thighs terminating 

 in a fpine, the others lobate : antennas fimple. 

 Inhabits Africa and Afia. Natural Mifcel. vii. fate 233. 

 Bead Tubulate, bifid : wing-cafes very gibbous green: <wings fhort: 

 abdomen much enlarged at the tip; ^yellowifh-green. 



Paupers Thorax linear, fpinulous : fore-thighs terminating in a fpine, 

 the others lobate. r 



Inhabits Ccromandel and Portugal. Herbst. Arch. t. 51./. 1. 



Mendica* 



