2′. Supra-anal lamina of each sex, short, transverse, posterior margin straight or rounded.
3. Subgenital lamina of the male somewhat produced, furnished with a single style. Tarsal claws with a distinct pad (except in the genus Paranauphoeta).
4. Anterior portion of the wings pointed, either the apical field of the wing very much produced, or the wings twice as long as the tegmina, folded in repose. Tribe 9. Oxyhaloides. [Plectopterinae Saussure.] (Fig. 129, Hypnorna amoena.)
4′. Anterior portion of wing, when present, rounded, with no apical field. Tribe 10. Perisphaeriides. (Fig. 130, Gromphadorhina portentosa; Fig. 131, Pseudoglomeris fornicata.)
3′. Subgenital lamina of males extremely small, without styles. No pad between claws. Tribe 11. Panesthiides.
To the above tribes another one—Geoscapheusides—has been recently added by Tepper,[[171]] for an extraordinary Australian Insect of fossorial habits, with front legs formed somewhat like those of Gryllotalpa.
CHAPTER X
ORTHOPTERA CONTINUED—MANTIDAE—SOOTHSAYERS
Fam. IV. Mantidae—Soothsayers or Praying Insects.
Orthoptera with exserted but deflexed head and elongate prothorax, the first pair of legs largely developed, raptorial, the coxae elongate, free, femora and tibiae armed with spines: second and third pair of legs simple and similar; the tarsi five-jointed, without a pad (arolium) between the claws; a pair of jointed cerci near the extremity of the body.