MANTIS DESICCATA. 
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segments are lobed. The tegmina are ornamented 
near the tips, beneath, with a large black spot sur- 
rounded by a white circle, which appears through the 
semi-transparent tegmina on the upper side ; theposte- 
rior wings are very dark brown, the costa and tips being 
paler brown. The anterior femora are of a moderate 
size, shining beneath, with four short black bars at 
the base of the spines. The four posterior legs are 
slender, the thighs having a small membranous bifid 
lobe near the tips. 
This insect, which must be regarded as a singular 
one even in the eccentric tribe to which it belongs, 
is a native of Malacca, and forms one of the orna- 
ments of the extensive collection of the Rev. F. W. 
Hope. It enters into Serville's first section of the 
family, the four posterior thighs being furnished witli 
a membrane at the tips ; but the unarmed structure 
of the head and eyes will not allow it to be referred 
to any of the genera (or rather subgenera) which he 
has proposed; Mr. Westwood has, therefore, considered 
it proper to give it a new subgeneric name, founded on 
the dilated form of the prothorax, by which character 
it appears to connect Empusa and Chseradotes ; Oxy- 
pilus also, having the head elevated in the middle, 
forms another link between the species with lobed 
and those with simple tibiae. 
EMPUSA GONGYLODES. 
Plate X. Fig. 1. 
Latr. ServUle — Mantis Gongylodes, Linn. — Roesel. ii. Locusta, 
PI. 7 — Stoll. Mant. PI. 16, figs. 58, 59, 61 Fabr. Ent. Syst. 
Drury’s Exotic Insects , by Westwood , I PI. 50, fig. 2. 
This genus is distinguished from Mantis by having 
