Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . known Neu-ropters. The anterior legs are peculiar inhaving a large and broad femur armed abovewith very slender spines as long as the joint,three of which, though mutilated, are seen inthe specimen. But something of this kindis observed under Neuropters in the Mantis,pids. It is quite probable that these anteriorlegs were prehensile, as in Mantispa, and thefact that the tibia and tarsus are not in sight in the specimen,favors this conclusion. . T
Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . known Neu-ropters. The anterior legs are peculiar inhaving a large and broad femur armed abovewith very slender spines as long as the joint,three of which, though mutilated, are seen inthe specimen. But something of this kindis observed under Neuropters in the Mantis,pids. It is quite probable that these anteriorlegs were prehensile, as in Mantispa, and thefact that the tibia and tarsus are not in sight in the specimen,favors this conclusion. . There appears to have been a pairof short obtuse appendages at the extremity of the abdomen, much as in Phyllium. Thehead is mostly 8. II. Scudder in theMemoirs of the Boston So-ciety of Natural History , shows that the vena-tion of this genus recalls fea-. Fig. r>7-t.
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