53^ INSECTS. HEMIPTERA. 59. Mantis. 



Simulacrum Thorax ciliate : wing-cafes green with a white fpot in the 

 middle. 

 Inhabits America; very much refembles M. precaria, but the 

 thorax is flioiter, thicker and more ciliate. 



Monacha. Thorax fmooth teftaceous : wing-cafes and wings green 

 hyaline. l 

 Inhabits the Cape of good hope, 

 Fore-Jlianks with 2 teftaceous dots on the fore-fide. 



Ohfcura* Thorax (lightly ferrate, dull grey : wing-cafes with a black 

 fpot at the bafe, wings with one at the tip. 

 Inhabits Africa. 



Head grey with a black frontal fpot: thorax dufky with a black 

 dorfal line : fore-legs flightly ferrate, the reft fimple. 



Hjakna. Thorax ciliate: wing-cafes hyaline edged with green: 

 front 2-toothed. 

 Inhabits America. Degeer, Inf. 3. tab. 37. fg, I, 

 Head brown : antennae ferrate : thorax linear carinate brown : 

 abdomen brown, the edges of the fegments black: wings hya- 

 line, ftriate with brown at the tip. 



Fenefrata. Thorax fmooth: wings hyaline: exterior margin of the 

 wing-cafes brown. 

 Inhabits Africa' 



Thorax linear : exterior margin of the wings brown at the tip : 

 legs pale : fore-jhanh with a few black fpots within. 



Bidens. Thorax rough: wing-cafes green with black bars: wings 

 brown black on the difk. 



Inhabits America. 



Head brown: front with 2 fharp approximate teeth: thorax 

 linear, grey with a few black raifed dots: wing-cafes with 2 

 oblique brown bands : legs brown : thighs pale at the bafe and 

 tipt with black : Jhanks of the fecond pair lobate. 



Grijea. Thorax fmooth: wing-cafes and wings grey hyaline fpotted 

 with brown. 

 In the Britijh Mufeum j middle-fized. 



Thighs of the fore legs a little dilated at the upper margin, fpi. 

 nous on the lower ; the other legs varied with grey and brown. 



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