THE 
GREAT M A N T I S. 
Generic Character. 
Head unfteady: Mouth armed with jaws, and 
furnifhed with palpi. 
Antenna fetaceous. 
Wings four, membranaceous, convoluted: the 
lower ones plicated. 
Feet anterior compreffed, ferrated beneath, armed 
with a folitary claw and lateral jointed pro- 
cefs ; pojlerior four, fmooth, formed for 
walking. 
Thorax linear, elongated, and narrowed. 
Specific Character. 
MANTIS with roundilh rough thorax,- very 
fhort elytra, and fpiny feet. 
Imagination can hardly figure to itfelf a creature of 
a more lingular appearance than this infed; and had 
we only received the accounts of authors, without hav¬ 
ing feen the animal itfelf, we might be inclined to 
queftion the truth of its exihence. In infects of this 
tribe the animal in its incomplete hate, or that which 
is analogous to the caterpillar-hate in the butterfly- 
tribe, differs not much from the appearance of the in¬ 
fect 
