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INSECTS. HEAIIPTERA. 59. Mantis. 
Wing-cafes green with 2 white fpots : abdomen with 3 
white fpots each fide. 
Inhabits the CiJ/e. AS. Suec.\~']^.iab. y. 
Large : antennae fhon greeti : head rough green, with z denti- 
cles each fide under the antennx : thorax green with a white 
margin, and z denticles before, one in the margin, the other 
before the middle ; in the middle is a deep ridge. 
59. MANTIS. unfleady; mouth axmtdi 
■with jaws: feelers filiform: wings 4, 
membranaceous, convolute, the under 
ones plaited : fore4egs comprefled, fer- 
rate or toothed beneath, armed with a 
fingle claw and lateral jointed procefs; 
the 4 hind-ones fmooth and formed for 
walking: thorax (moflly) linear, elon- 
gated and narrow. 
Body filiform, apterous, brown : legs longer than the body, 
unarmed. 
Inhabits South America, Ilerbjl, Arch, tab. 22, 
Antennae black. 
Body filiform, apterous, green ; legs longer than the body: 
hind-thighs fpinous at the tip. 
Inhabits Guadeloupe', large long and filiform: 
Antennae moderate, green tiptwith brown : body fmooth glabrous, 
without wing-cafes : thighs angular, the 4 hind-ones Iplnous. 
Body filiform, apterous, greenifh: thighs ftriate. 
Inhabits Santa Cruz, in America. 
Antennae yellowifii : head fmooth ycllowifii ; body cylindrical ; 
legs yellowifii : thighs ftriate with raifed lines. 
Body filiform, apterous, green : thighs toothed. 
Inhabits Italy. Rojj'. Fn. F.tr. !. tab, S.fg. i. 
Legs Ihort, brown ; thighs toothed beneath. 
• Apterous ; head and thorax fpinous : wing-cafes rounded, 
very fliort : thighs angular beneath. 
Inhabits Guadeloupe. Mantis gigas. Drury. 2. tab. 50. 
Forty chefnut-brown : head with 2 fpincs and numerous raifed 
dots ; thorax with 2 fliarp fpines on the anterior lobe and nu- 
merous raifed dots, the fidcs ierrate : nxing-cafes fiiort rounded 
reticulate: very angular, the ^-hind-ones fpinous be- 
neath. 
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