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thorax linear* grey, with a few black raifed dots; legs 
brown; thighs pale at the bafe, and tipt with black; 
(hanks of the fecond pair lobate. Inhabits America. 
44.. Mantis grifea : thorax fmooth ; wing-cafes and wings 
grey, hyaline, fpotted with brown. Thighs of the fore¬ 
legs a little dilated at the upper margin ; fpinous on the 
lower; the other legs varied with grey and brown. In 
the Britilh Mufeum. 
45. Mantis miniltralis: thorax rough, crenate, as long 
as the head, ferruginous on the fore-part; wing-cafes 
green. The head is yellowilh ; antenna; brown ; thorax 
carinate; outer margin of the wing-cafes fub-ferruginous; 
fore-thighs fulvous ; abdomen brown, pale at the tip. 
Found in New Holland. 
46. Mantis urbana : thorax entire; wing-cafes green, 
with a ferruginous dot and band. It inhabits India. 
47. Mantis rultica: thorax fmooth, brown ; wing-cafes 
fhorter than the wings; brown hyaline; antennae hairy. 
It inhabits the fliores of Patagonia ; the head is grey-brown, 
with globular raifed (femmata; the legs are yellowilh. 
48. Mantis nafuta : thorax fpinous and ciliate; front 
projecting, fpinous, emarginate. It inhabits the Cape of 
Good Hope. Head flat; front two-toothed on each fide, 
and widely emarginate at the tip; thorax black, with a 
raifed tubercle before and behind ; wings and wing-cafes 
grey hyaline, with numerous brown dots at the nerves ; 
the legs are black and annulate. 
49. Mantis lobata: thorax three-lobed ; front with a bi¬ 
fid horn ; eyes conic, pointed. This alfo is found at the 
Cape, and is particularly defcribed by Thunberg ; the 
mouth is varied with green and brown ; the front isgreen- 
i(b, with a projecting bifid horn between the antenna; ; 
wing-cafes green, with a white bafe and fpot in the mid¬ 
dle; wings black, tipt with white ; body varied with green 
and white ; margin of the abdomen elevated and lobate. 
50. Mantis pulchra : thorax green throughout; wings 
brown hyaline, ferruginous at the bafe. The antenna; 
are brown ; head and thorax green, a little yellowilh'at 
the edge ; wing-cafes green, the margin yellow at the 
bafe; abdomen above brown, beneath green ; legs yellow. 
Inhabits Tranquebar. 
51. Mantis faufta : linear, alh-coloured, fpotted with 
black. This is an inhabitant of the Cape; and is likewife 
faid to be worlhipped by the Hottentots. 
52. Mantis perfpicua : duflcy ; wings and wing-cafes 
hyaline ; but the wings have a brown marginal fpot and 
tip. It is a fmall infeCf, and is found at Cayenne; the 
wing-cafes have a fmall black dot towards the bafe. 
53. Mantis pagana : wings reticulate, white with a la¬ 
teral ferruginous fpot; end of the legs chelate. It inha¬ 
bits France and Germany. 
54. Mantis minuta: thorax cylindrical and yellowilh ; 
wing-cafes hyaline, with a greenilh rib and a fmall white 
dot in the middle; the abdomen is greenilh, and yellowilh 
on the back ; the kgs of a greenilh colour. Inhabits 
South America. 
55. Mantis pufilla : thorax cylindrical, yellowilh ; wing- 
cafes and wings hyaline, immaculate. Inhabits Africa. 
56. Mantis Carolina: thorax l’ubciliate, carinate ; wing- 
cafes whitilh, waved with brown. Inhabits Carolina. 
57. Mantis labiata : linear, greenilh, unarmed ; fides of 
the head green. Inhabits India. 
58. Mantis maculata : cinereous; thorax winged, fub- 
fpinous; legs fpotted within with black. This is found 
in the illands of Japan. 
59. Mantis Capenfis t cinereous; thorax is unarmed ; 
bead conic. Inhabits Africa and India. 
60. Mantis parva : livid and fmooth ; wing-cafes and 
wings hyaline; fegments of the abdomen edged with 
black. “ When this infeft was living (fays Mr. Drury), 
I judge it to have been of a light green colour; now it is 
intirely of a dulky olive. (See fig. 6.) The head is 
fmall; the eyes round, and placed at a diftance from each 
other; the antennae are fmall, and thread-like, and about 
Iialf the length of the infect. The thorax is long and 
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{lender. The wing-cnfes are thin, narrow, and diapha¬ 
nous, of the fame length with the wings ; but narrower, 
and placed at a little diftance from them; the wings are 
alfo thin and diaphanous, but a little broader than their, 
cafes, and, when doled, extend to the anus. The abdo¬ 
men is (lender and rounding. The legs are fmall and 
long, the hinder ones being formed ratiter for running 
than jumping ; the fore-ones having a remarkable filament 
or thread, extending beyond the hooks or claws. It 
came from America ; and is in the polfelfion of Dr. Fo- 
thergill. Length, i§ inch.” 
61. Mantis cingulata : thorax brownifh ; wing-cafes 
green, reticulate with black, and marked with four blackilh 
fpots; wings biackifh, with black lines, the edge yellow- 
iili-brown. Inhabits Jamaica. 
62. Mantis gigantea: brownilh; neck, thorax, and 
thighs, ferrate. Inhabits Italy. 
63. Mantis angufta: greenilh; tail forked; antenna? 
filiform, and as long as the body. Inhabits Antigua. 
64. Mantis Sibirica: fuppofed to be a variety of the M. 
pufilla, and is an inhabitant of Siberia; the body is varied 
with yellow and brown ; wings hyaline with reddilh nerves. 
65. Mantis brachyptera: cinereous; thorax toothed; 
wings half as long as the body. Found alfo in the de- 
ferts of Siberia. 
66. Mantis pennicornis: the crown of this infe<51 has a 
conic fpine ; the antennae are feathered and linear; the 
hind thighs terminate in a lobe. It is found in the de- 
ferts bordering on the Cafpian Sea ; and very much re- 
fembles in lhape and colour the M. gongylodes. 
MAN'TLE, f. [mantell, Welfti.] A kind of cloak or 
garment thrown over the reft of the drefs.—The herald 
and children are clothed with mantles of fattin ; but the 
herald’s mantle is ftreamed with gold. Bacon. —Poor Tom 
drinks the green mantle of the Handing pool. Shakefpeare's 
King Lear. 
A fpacious veil from his broad Ihoulders flew. 
That fet the unhappy Phaeton to view ; 
The flaming chariot and the (feeds it Ihow’d, 
And the whole fable in the mantle glow’d. Addifon. 
To MAN'TLE, v. a. To cloke ; to cover; to difguifes 
As the morning (teals upon the night, 
Melting the darknefs; fo the riling ienfes 
Begin to chace the ign’rant fumes, that mantle 
Their clearer reafon. Shakefpear e's Tempejl. 
To MAN'TLE, v. n. [The original of the fignification 
of this word is not plain. Skinner confiders it as relative 
to the expanfion of a mantle: as, The hawk mantleth ; 
(he fpreads her wings like a mantle. ] To fpread the wings 
as a hawk in pleafure : 
The fwan with arched neck, 
Between her white wings mantling , rows 
Her ftate with oary feet. Milton's Paradife Lojl. 
To joy ; to revel: 
My frail fancy fed with full delight 
Doth bathe in blifs, and mantleth molt at eafe; 
Ne thinks of other heaven, but how it might 
Her heart’s delire with moll contentment pleafe. Spenfer. 
To be expanded; to fpread luxuriantly : 
You’ll fometimes meet a fop, of nicelt tread, 
Whofe mantling peruke veils his empty head. Gay. 
To gather any thing on the furface ; to froth.—It drinketh 
frelh, flowereth and mantleth exceedingly. Bacon. 
From plate to plate your eye-balls roll. 
And the brain dances to the mantling bowl. Pope. 
To ferment; to be in fprightly agitation ; 
When mantling blood 
Flow’d in his lovely cheeks 5 when in his bright eyes 
Sparkled with youthful fires ; when ev’ry grace 
Shone in the father, which now crowns the fon. Smith. 
MAN'TLING, 
