THE 



BROAD-BREASTED MANTIS. 



Generic Character. 



Head unfteady : Mouth armed with jaws, and 

 funiifhed with palpi. 



Antennae fetaceous, (fome few fpecies excepted.) 



Wings four, membranaceous, in moll: fpecies con- 

 voluted : the lower ones (generally) plicated. 



Feet anterior comprefled, ferrated beneath, armed 

 with a lateral folitary claw and jointed pro- 

 •cefs ; pqfterior four, fmooth, formed for 

 walking. 



Thorax (in moft fpecies) elongated and narrowed. 



Specific Character, &c. 



MANTIS with the fides of the thorax nearly 

 membranaceous and greatly dilated. 



Men Sur. t. 27. 

 Roe/. 2. grylL t. 3. 



The Mantis Strumaria is amongft tbe number of 

 thofe infects which in lefs enlightened times have been 

 confidered as a kind of animated leaves- The very 

 large, dilated thorax in this infect is highly remarkable. 



The 



