THE 



GREAT MANTIS. 



Generic Character. 



Head imfleady : Mouth armed with jaws, and 



furnifhed with palpi. 

 Antenna fetaceous. 



Wings four, membranaceous, convoluted : the 



lower ones plicated. 

 Feet anterior compreffed, ferrated beneath, armed 



with a folitary claw and lateral jointed pro- 



cefs ; pofterior four, fmooth, formed for 



walking. 



Thorax linear, elongated, and narrowed. 



Specific Character. 



MANTIS with roundiih rough thorax, very 

 Ihort elytra, and fpiny feet. 



Imagination can hardly figure to itfclf a creature of 

 a more lingular appearance than this infect.; and had 

 We only received the accounts of authors, without hav- 

 ing feen the animal itfelf, we might be inclined to 

 queftion the truth of its exiftence. ' In infects of this 

 tribe the animal in its incomplete Mate, or that which 

 is analogous to the caterpillar-Hate in the butterfly- 

 tribe, differs not much from the appearance of the in- 

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