THE 
BROAD-BREASTED MANTIS. 
Generic Character. 
Head unfteady: Mouth armed with jaws, and 
furnifhed with palpi. 
Antenna fetaceous, (fome few fpecies excepted.) 
Wings four, membranaceous, in mod; fpecies con¬ 
voluted: the lower ones (generally) plicated. 
Feet anterior comprefled, ferrated beneath, armed 
with a lateral folitary claw and jointed pro- 
cefs; pojierior four, fmooth, formed for 
walking. 
Thorax (in mod fpecies) elongated and narrowed. 
Specific Character, &c. 
MANTIS with the fides of the thorax nearly 
membranaceous and greatly dilated. 
Mer. Sur. t. 27. 
Reef. 2. gryll. t. 3. 
The Mantis Strumaria is amongft the number of 
thofe infedts which in lefs enlightened times have been 
confidered as a kind of animated leaves. The very 
large, dilated thorax in this infedt is highly remarkable. 
The 
