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iineari, elongato, concolore; margine postico subrecto. Alae semiorbiculares, campo antico basi opaco- 

 flayo angusto, venis indivisis, apice maculis vitreis. Campus posticus magna parte vitreus, fasciis 

 transversis opaco-flavis tessellatus. Pedes gracillimi. Coxae anteriores margine antico remote denticulato, 

 postico inermi ; femora ultra emarginaturam macula minuta ruf a. Abdomen fusiforme. 



d . Gracillimus. Pronoti margines inermes. Elytra angusta abdominis longitudine, apice attenuata, anguste 

 rotundata ; campo margin ali basi modice dilatato, prasino-opaco, dehinc valde angustato, submembranaceo, 

 thalassino ; campo postico hyalino-fuscescente, basi linea infuscata ad venam principalem posita. Alae 

 byalino-infuseatae, apice fusciore, incisura apicali parum profunda. Campus posticus infuscatus, venis 

 albidis, quam campus anticus paulo brevior. Pedes gracillimi ; coxse fere inermes, margine antico tantum 

 denticulis paucis. 



Var. $ . Alse vix infuscatee. 



2 . Long. 52 ; pronot. 19, femor. ant. 13, elytr. 15, latit. elytr. 5 millim. 



c? . Long. 47 ; pronot. 18, femor. ant. 5, elytr. 31, latit. elytr. 6 millim. 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion: 2 <$ , 1 ? ). 



Very like S. nahua, but much longer and more slender. In the female the head is 

 wider, with the sulci of the vertex more impressed; the facial shield angulated above, 

 not truncate ; the elytra and wings longer, the latter not black in their posterior field. 

 The male is distinguished from the corresponding sex of S. nahua by having the elytra 

 produced nearly to the tip of the abdomen, with the costal margin not membranaceous. 



4. Stagmomantis Carolina, Joh. 



Gryllus carolinus, Johans. Linn. Amoen. Acad. vi. p. 396. 28 ( ? ) (1763). 



Mantis Carolina, Linn. Sy.st. Nat. 12th edit. i. 2, p. 691. 9 ( ? ) (1767) ; Stoll, Kakkerl. t. 24. 



fig. 91 (?) ; Burm. Handb. ii. p. 588. 38 ( ? ). 

 Stagmomantis Carolina, Sauss. Mem. Mex., Mantid. p. 46; Stal, Syst. Mant. p. 61. 3 ; Westw. 



Revis. Mantid. p. 14 (excl. syn. S. tolteca). 

 Gryllus irroratus, Johans. Linn. Amoen. Acad. vi. p. 397. 29 (^). 

 Mantis irrorata, Linn. Syst. Nat. 12th edit. i. 2, p. 690. 7 ( ? ); Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 19. 29 ( ? ); 



Licht. Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. p. 27. 21 ( ? ) (1802). 

 Mantis conspurcata, Serv. Orthopt. p. 191. 19 {<$ ). 

 Mantis inquinata, Serv. loc. cit. p. 191. 20 ( $). 



2 . Grisea ; elytris ubique fusco-punctato marmoratis ; alis campo anteriore flavido, apice macula fusoa, campo 



postico hyalino-fusco, venulis transversis flavis ; pedibus fusco-fasciatis. 

 d . Illo S. toltecce conformis. 



$ . Long. 52 ; pronot. 18, femor. ant. 12-2, elytr. 21-25, latit. elytr. 7-5 millim. 

 S . Long. 50 ; pronot. 16, femor. ant. 10, elytr. 33, latit. elytr. 7 millim. 



Hab. North America, Louisiana, Carolina, Tennessee, Texas. — North Mexico. 



5. Stagmomantis tolteca, Sauss. 



Mantis tolteca, Sauss. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. xiii. p. 127 ( ? ) (1861). 



Stagmomantis tolteca, Sauss. Miss. Scient. Mex., Orthopt. p. 247, t. 5. fig. 6 ( ? ), t. 6. fig. 12 (<$). 



$ . S. Carolina simillima ; elytris prasinis vel griseis, fusco-irroratis, macula disci fusca, fascia fusca irregulari 

 ante medium, alteraque in apice, fuscis ; alis anterius late rubris, macula apicali nigra, parte rubra 

 intus latiore, dimidiam partem basalem campi postici tegente ; campo postico de reliquo hyalino-griseo- 

 flavicante, vittis transversis angustis flavis opacis ; pedibus fusco-fasciatis. 



