EMPUSA GONGYLODES. 
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head, and having an acute angle on each side. Teg- 
mina yellow inclining to brown, especially towards 
the anterior margin, covering about two- thirds of the 
abdomen when closed ; wings small, thin, and trans- 
parent, pale orligbtgreen. Abdomen yellowish brown, 
flat, much widened at the hinder extremity, and ter- 
minating behind in a triangular point, the sides waved 
and a little turned upwards. The anterior legs are 
nearly of the same colour as the head and thorax, 
slightly clouded with dark brown, the thighs very 
much thickened, and the trochanters, which are long, 
thin, and flat, terminating in a strong slightly curved 
spine ; the other legs slender and greyish brown, each 
with a foliaceous expansion near the tip of the thighs, 
somewhat heart-shaped, and divided into two acute 
angles anteriorly ; tibiae of the middle legs terminat- 
ing in three small spines, those of the hinder legs in 
two. 
EMPUSA LOBIPES. 
Plate X. Fig. 2. 
Mantis lobipes, Lichen . Linn . Trans, vi. p. 23. — M. undata, 
Fahr . Stoll's Mant. PI. 8, fig. 30. 
Nearly as large as the preceding, to which it bears 
considerable resemblance. Head yellowish brown, 
triangular, the forehead much produced, the eyes 
round and very prominent ; antennae short. Thorax 
the colour of the head, half the length of the whole 
body, slender, margined on the sides, and a little 
dilated behind the head; tegmina longer than the 
abdomen, thin and transparent, wings hyaline, both 
slightly streaked with green rays ; abdomen flat and 
