devilkin

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Despite its fantastic appearance, the Devilkin is instantly recognized by the Tachytes as a Mantid and therefore as game falling within her scope.

From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

The Devilkin, therefore, frail though she be, possesses the secret of immediately destroying the resistance of her prey.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

I," said Sylvester, "have long been acquainted with the little Devilkin that sits on Lothair's shoulder like a tame squirrel.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

What does the Devilkin want with that monstrous pointed cap, than which no wise man of the East, no astrologer of old ever wore a more splendiferous?

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

The children of my neighbourhood, impressed by its startling shape, call it "the Devilkin."

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander