
HEMTPTER A. 
MANTIS OCULATA. 
CORNUTED-EYE CAMEL CRICKET. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head flightly attached to the thorax, unfteady: the mouth armed with jaws and palpi. Antenne fetaceous. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Thorax filiform, or like a thread, triangular. Eyes oblong, prominent, and terminated each in a 
fharp fpine. 
Mantis Ocurara thorace triangulo filiformi, oculis oblongis porreétis acuminato fpinofis, Fab. Ent. Sy/. 
rt. 2. 19; 2. 
Mantis bicornis thorace levi, capite bipartito fubulato. Lun. Sy. Nat. 2, 6Q1. 11. 

Two figures of the Mantis, very much refembling our fpecies, is given in the work of Stoll on Cicada, 
(5'c, one kind he calls La Mante 2troitement cornue, the other La Mante Chinoife étroites cornue, 'The firft is 
from the coaft of Coromandel and Tranquebar, the other, as its name implies, is a Chinefe infe&t. We 
cannot difcover any material difference between thefe figures and our fpecimen, and are inclined to confider 
them altogether as one {pecies. 
Few of the Cicade and Locufte defcribed by Fabricius, in his Species Infectorum, have any reference to 
figures, becaufe a very fmall number of them had been figured till Stoll publifhed his work on thofe genera. 
Stoll has occafion to mention with regret, that Fabricius has fearcely noticed any of his plates. It is a 
confiderable difadvantage to the works of that author, as well as to the naturalift that confults them, that 
no fcientific names, or definitions, are given to the figures of many rare infeéts included amongft them. 
_ The Mantis Oculata of Fabricius is an African infe&, and was defcribed from the collection of the 
Right Hon. Sir J. Banks, Bart. we have compared our Chinefe fpecimen with it, and find it is precifely the 
fame f{pecies. 

