Las Mantas o Campamochas

Mexico: Secretaria de Fomento; Comision de Parasitologia Agricola; Circular Num 54, ..., 1907. Quarto, in half leather; 14 p, b&w illus, notes, bibl. Very good(+) with ex-lib stamps to a few leaves. .

Rare work in Spanish on praying mantises. No copies located in World Cat. Professionally rebound in sturdy custom half-leather boards. / Insects. Entomoloy Mantis religiosa. / "Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They have triangular heads with bulging eyes supported on flexible necks. Their elongated bodies may or may not have wings, but all Mantodea have forelegs that are greatly enlarged and adapted for catching and gripping prey; their upright posture, while remaining stationary with forearms folded, has led to the common name praying mantis" — Wikipedia