head, and having an acute angle on each side. Tegmina yellow inclining to brown, especially towards the anterior margin, covering about two-thirds of the abdomen when closed; wings small, thin, and transparent, pale or light green. Abdomen yellowish brown, flat, much widened at the hinder extremity, and terminating behind in a triangular point, the sides waved and a little turned upwards. The anterior legs are nearly of the same colour as the head and thorax, slightly clouded with dark brown, the thighs very much thickened, and the trochanters, which are long, thin, and flat, terminating in a strong slightly curved spine; the other legs slender and greyish brown, each with a foliaceous expansion near the tip of the thighs, somewhat heart-shaped, and divided into two acute angles anteriorly; tibiæ of the middle legs terminating in three small spines, those of the hinder legs in two.
EMPUSA LOBIPES.
Plate X. Fig. 2.
Mantis lobipes, Lichen. Linn. Trans. vi. p. 23.—M. undata, Fabr. Stoll's Mant. Pl. 8, fig. 30.
Nearly as large as the preceding, to which it bears considerable resemblance. Head yellowish brown, triangular, the forehead much produced, the eyes round and very prominent; antennæ short. Thorax the colour of the head, half the length of the whole body, slender, margined on the sides, and a little dilated behind the head; tegmina longer than the abdomen, thin and transparent, wings hyaline, both slightly streaked with green rays; abdomen flat and
