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SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT. 
pretty broad. The anterior legs are long and thick, 
light brown clouded with dusky, the trochanters 
without a terminal spine ; middle and hinder legs 
with a heart-shaped expansion near the apex of the 
thighs, and another of smaller size behind the middle 
of the tibiae ; the latter aimed with two spines at the 
tip. 
This insect is a native of Tranquebar and other 
places on the Coromandel coast. 
Fam, Phasmidae. 
Although formerly confounded under the same 
name, the differences between Phaama and Mantis 
seem to be even more than generic, and sufficient to 
justify the establishment of two separate families. 
The spectres indeed, at first sight, appear to own 
but little connection with any other insect, their 
facies or general aspect being altogether peculiar. 
It is not till after a pretty careful examination of 
their structure that their relations become apparent. 
This is particularly the case with the apterous species, 
in which the essential characters appear, as it were, 
in such a disguise, that on a cursory inspection doubt 
may be entertained even about the order to which 
they belong. Some of the winged species, however, 
shew a more obvious affinity to the tribes with which 
they are usually associated. 
This family is at once distinguished from the pre- 
ceding one by all the legs being of equal dimensions, 
or nearly so. The head is large, rounded-oval, and 
usually borne somewhat horizontally ; the antennas 
