Note 4 — Chapter VI · THE MANTIS: HER HUNTING
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Among the hunters, I have before now drawn a distinction between those who paralyse and those who kill.4 Both terrify one with their anatomical knowledge. To-day let us add to the killers the Thomisus, that expert in stabbing in the neck, and the Mantis, who, to devour a powerful prey at her ease, deprives it of movement by first gnawing its cervical ganglia.