MANTIS CINGULATA. Luteo-fusca, elytris subolivaceis maculis duabus
obliquis discoidalibus, alis fuscis basi et versus apicem pallidioribus,
abdomine pallido nigro annulato. (Long. Corp. 2 unc. 9 lin.)
SYN.. Mantis Cingulata, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2.
Mantis Domingensis, _Pal. Beauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer. Orthopt. pl._ 12.
_f._ 2.?
HABITAT: Jamaica.
Head brown yellow. Eyes rounded, and distant. Antennæ (in Drury's
specimen) wanting. Thorax long and slender, flat at bottom and rounded at
top. Tegmina pale greenish colour, with a nerve running down the middle
like the leaf of a tree, extending, when closed, the length of the
abdomen, being margined along the edges. Wings very thin and brown; but
along the anterior edges thick and yellow. Abdomen yellowish, with black
rings, and broad at the middle, but narrow where it joins the thorax.
Fore legs yellow brown, with a black spot at the tips of the femora on
the inner side. Trochanters flat and thin. Femora furnished with two rows
of spines, and a groove between them to receive the tibiæ, which are
furnished at the extremity with a strong spine bending inwardly, and
likewise on each side with a row of small and shorter spines, regularly
placed and very even. From this articulation proceed the slender tarsi,
the first joint being the longest. The middle legs have a small flap, or
membrane, placed near the tips of the tibiæ, on the first articulation of
the bearers; with two small spines at the joints of the same
articulations, both of these and the hinder legs.
{100}PLATE L.
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