Hist._, vol.xiv.
1871.] [Footnote 78: _Nature_, 1870, p.

376.] [Footnote 79: _A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago_, p.
63.] [Footnote 80: A beautiful drawing of this rare insect, Hymenopus bicornis (in the nymph or active pupa state), was kindly sent me by Mr.
Wood-Mason, Curator of the Indian Museum at Calcutta.

A species, very similar to it, inhabits Java, where it is said to resemble a pink orchid.

Other Mantidae, of the genus Gongylus, have the anterior part of the thorax dilated and coloured either white, pink, or purple; and they so closely resemble flowers that, according to Mr.Wood-Mason, one of them, having a bright violet-blue prothoracic shield, was found in Pegu by a botanist, and was for a moment mistaken by him for a flower.

See _Proc.Ent.Soc.