THE 



DRY LEAF MANTIS. 



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Generic Character. 



Head unfteady ; Mouth armed with jaws, and 

 furnifhed with palpi. 



Antenna fetaceous, (fome few fpecies excepted.) 



Wings four, membranaceous, in raoft fpecies con- 

 voluted : the lower ones (generally) plicated. 



Feet anterior compreffed, ferrated beneath, armed 

 with a lateral folitary claw and jointed pro- 

 cefs ; poflerior four fmooth, formed for walk- 

 ing. 



Thorax (in moft Ipecies) elongated and narrowed. 



Specific Character, &c. 



MANTIS with denticulated thorax and ovate 

 membranaceous thighs. 



THE WALKING LEAF. 



Edw, pi. 258, 



The very remarkable fhape and colour of this in- 

 fed uniformly fuggeft the idea of a dried or withered 

 leaf, which the animal, when its wings are clofed, fo 



much 



