American entomology, or, Descriptions of the insects of North America : illustrated by coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature . U/yriif/ Av S/i,//r %A Jln,yrc-nvv?/e-r C^/f/cU( MANTISPA. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae filiform, but little longer than thehead, the joints transverse; eyes prominent;thorax having the anterior segment elongated,cylindric-clavate, supporting the anterior pair offeet at its anterior extremity; anterior feetadvanced, very conspicuous, cheliferous, the basaljoint very much elongated; wings reticulated,deflected. OBSERVATIONS. A very small, b
American entomology, or, Descriptions of the insects of North America : illustrated by coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature . U/yriif/ Av S/i,//r %A Jln,yrc-nvv?/e-r C^/f/cU( MANTISPA. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae filiform, but little longer than thehead, the joints transverse; eyes prominent;thorax having the anterior segment elongated,cylindric-clavate, supporting the anterior pair offeet at its anterior extremity; anterior feetadvanced, very conspicuous, cheliferous, the basaljoint very much elongated; wings reticulated,deflected. OBSERVATIONS. A very small, but singular and natural group ofinsects, allied to Mantis, and also to placed a species, which he described underthe name now adopted as generic, in the genusRaphidia, and Lamarck assents to an alliancewith that genus, by placing Mantispa immedi-ately next to Raphidia, in his system. Latreille,who formed the genus, and most other authors,refer it to the same family with Mantis and PLATE XXV. Spectrum; indeed, in the Regne Animal, it isconsidered as a mere sub-genus of Mantis. But if we adhere rigidly to the characters ofthe or
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