. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . Mantis and young. Fig. 144, copied from Pibsel, shows the Mantis eating its prey, and a case of the eggs with the young coming out. * Travels in Peru, translated by T. Koss, p. 439, East, the Mantis is frequently kept in little bamboocages, and two are placed together
. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . Mantis and young. Fig. 144, copied from Pibsel, shows the Mantis eating its prey, and a case of the eggs with the young coming out. * Travels in Peru, translated by T. Koss, p. 439, East, the Mantis is frequently kept in little bamboocages, and two are placed together by the natives, asthey are very pugnacious, and cut at each other withtheir formidable fore feet. Fig. 4, Plate 5, representsthe Mantis rcUgiosa in profile. Roland Trimen, Esq., in an interesting letter fromCape Town, dated July 18th, 1860, thus records thehistory of the oviposition of a Mantis which he tookin May. During the two months it constructed fournests of eggs, at intervals of about a fortnight. Hesays— I bad the pleasure of seeing her construct oneof these, and was rather sui-prised at her method of pro-ceeding. I used to fancy that the eggs were arrangedfirst, and the structure coated over with cement after-wards, but I found this to be a great mistake. Thespecies he describes is grass-green ; has scarlet ja
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