INSECTS. HEMIPTERA. 59. Mantis 539 



Miniftralis. Thorax rough, crenate, as long as the head, ferruginous on 

 the fore-part : wing-cafes green. 

 Inhabits New Holland. 



Head yellowifa : ante>mae brown : thorax carinate : outer margin 

 of the wing-cafes fubferruginous \ fore -thighs fulvous : abdomen 

 brown, pale at the tip. 



Urbana. Thorax entire : wing-cafes green, with a ferruginous dot 

 and ba^ 

 Inhabits India ; lefs than the lafl. 



RuJIica. Thorax fmooth brown: wing-cafes fhorter than the wings, 

 brown hyaline: antennae hairy. 

 Inhabits the mores of Patagonia. 

 Head grey. brown with globular raifed {lemmata: legs yellowifh. 



Nafuta. Thorax fpinous and ciliate: front projecting, fpinous 

 emarginate. 

 Inhabits the Cape of good hope. 



Head flat: front 2 toothed each fide and widely emarginate at 

 the tip* thorax black with a raifed tubercle before and behind 

 and many fpines, the margin white ciliate with fpines j wing- 

 cafes and wings grey hyaline with numerous linear brown 

 dots at the nerves : legs black annulate with teftaceous. 



Lobata. Thorax 3-lobed: front with a bifid horn: eyes cpnk pointed. 



Inhabits the Cape. Thunburg Nov. Inf. 3. fig. 73. 



Mouth varied with green and brown : front greenifh, with a 

 projecting bifid horn between the antennae : antennae, black : 

 crown brown : eyes large teftaceous : thorax more : wing-cafes 

 green with a white bafe and fpot in the middle : wings black 

 tipc with white : body varied with green and white : margin 

 of the abdomen elevated and lobate. 



Pukhra. Thorax entire green : wings brown hyaline, ferruginous 

 at the bafe. 



Inhabits Tranquebar. 



Antennae brown : /;<Wand thorax green, a little yellowifh at the 

 edge : wing-cafes green, the margin yellow at the bafe : 

 abdomen above brown, beneath green : legs yellow. 



Fauf.a. Linear, cinereous-brown immaculate. 



Inhabits the Cape. Thunb. Nov. Inf. 3. 63. 



This is likewife faid to be worfhiped by the Hottentots. 



3 Y 2 Perfpicua* 



