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LONG-BREASTED MANTIS. 
Generic Character^ 
Head unfteady; mouth armed with jaws, and 
furniflaed with palpi. 
Antennce fetaceous, (fome few fpecies excepted.) 
V/ings four, membranaceous, in moft fpecies con¬ 
voluted: the lower ones (generally) plicated. 
Feet anterior compreffed, ferrated beneath, armed 
w’ith a lateral folitary claw and jointed pro- 
cefs; pojierior four, fmooth, formed for 
walking. 
Thorax (in moft fpecies) elongated and narrowed. 
Specific Character, &c. 
MANTIS wdth linear thorax dilated on each lide, 
the fore thighs terminated by a fpine, the 
other lobated. 
Roes. inf. 2. gryll. t. 7. 
D'Aubent. pi. enl. 65. f. 2. 
Drury inf. \. pi ^6. f. 2. 
The Mantis gongylodes is an infedl of fo fingular 
an appearance, that it feems, at firft view, as if 
formed 
