In respect of size, he is almost the equal of his mate.
Save for a few slight structural details, the Empusa is the Praying Mantis.

The peasant confuses them.

When, in spring, he meets the mitred insect, he thinks he sees the common Prego-Dieu, who is a daughter of the autumn.

Similar forms would seem to indicate similarity of habits.
In fact, led away by the extraordinary armour, we should be tempted to attribute to the Empusa a mode of life even more atrocious than that of the Mantis.

I myself thought so at first; and any one, relying upon false analogies, would think the same.