1^0 HEMIPTER.*. 
brown^ but varied with a slight cast of 
green at the edges and tips. 
Lucy, It looks surprisingly like a 
bundle of leaves fastened together by the 
stalks. It is a very carious animal in- 
deed. Are the other kinds as large as 
this ? 
Mother. The mantis gigas, or great 
mantisy is still larger. It is a native of 
Amboyna, but very little is known of its 
history ; so little, that we are not certain 
whether it is the larva or the perfect in- 
sect which has been sent to Europe, and 
which we find in collections of insects. 
The mantis siccifolia^ or dry leaf man- 
tis, is also an inhabitant of the East 
Indies, and it is so like a leaf as to be very 
readily mistaken for one. Its wings are 
imperfect, but whether this arises from 
the specimens brought to Europe being 
larvae, or whether, like several insects in 
the order coleoptera, and some species of 
bugs in liemiptera, they are only provided 
with elytra, has not been ascertained. 
