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cc. Alas fasciis 3 nigro -violaceis, fasciisque 3 laste aurantiis. Elytra ad stigma infuscata.— 

 [2. fulgida, Sss.] 

 bb. Abdominis segmenta superne apice tuberculata, prassertim ultima 3. Pronotum parallelum, 

 marginibus muticis. Alarum fasciae flavas minus dense venulosas. 

 c. Pronoti collum ut solitum anterius attenuatum. 



d. Elytrorum area membranacea analis basi excepta nigra; discus nonnunquam stig- 

 mate fusco. Elytra ? alis asquilonga. Alas ? fasciis 2 nigro-violaceis, fasciisque 

 splendide aurantiis variabilibus ornatis. — [3. quinquemaculata, St.] 

 dd, Elytrorum area membranacea analis nebulosa, hyalino-reticulata ; discus immacu- 

 latus. Elytra alis breviora. Alae $ fasciis 2-3 splendide nigro-violaceis, fasciisque 

 3 laste aurantiis. — 4. championi, sp. n. 

 cc. Pronoti collum fere a basi parellelum. Alas ut in A. brachyptera pictas. — [5. tri- 

 fasciata, StaL] 

 aa. Alas minus membranaceas, rubra? vel flavas, margine externo et postico nigro. Elytrorum 

 area membranacea anali pellucida. (Feminas ignotas.) Marium elytra quam alas sensim 

 breviora ; alas amplas, margine postico magis arcuato, venulis transversis invicem remotis ; 

 campo antico angustissimo, concolore ; campo postico fascia transversa nigra, cum margine 

 nigro confluente. 

 b. Alas rubras. — 6. miranda, Sss. 

 bb. Alse flavas. — 7. perpulchra, W. 



[1. Angela brachyptera, Stoll. 



, Seba, Tbesaur. iv. t. 68. figg. 7, 8 (<?), t. 76. figg. 7, 8 (tf) (1765). 



Mantis brachyptera, Stoll, Kakkerl. t. 19. fig. 71 ( ? ). 



Angela brachyptera, Serv. Orthopt. p. 173. 4 ($). 



Mantis versicolor, Stoll, Kakkerl. t. 8. fig. 28 (c?) ; Blanch. Hist, des Ins. iii. p. 13. 7. 



Angela versicolor, Sauss. Me"m. Mex., Mantid. p. 59. 1*; Miss. Scient. Mex., Orthopt. p. 271. 1 ; 



Westw. Eevis. Mantid. p. 5, t. 3. fig. 2 (<y), fig. 3 ($). 

 Mantis purpurascens, Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vii. p. 640. 7 {<S) ; Lichtenst. Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 



p. 20. 4 {$) -, Erichson, in Schoniburgk's Flora und Fauna v. Brit.-Guiana, iii. p. 580 (<J). 

 Thespis purpurascens, Burm. Handb. ii. p. 533. 17 (<£). 



Fusco-grisea (vel in vivis virescens ?). Prothorax a basi ad sulcum coxalem quam coxae anticae duplo longior, 

 marginibus totis remote dentatis ; collo longiore anterius attenuate 



$ . Elytra alis aequilonga, corpore concolora. Alse ad apicem primi abdominis segmenti extensse, maeulis 2 

 transversis fusco-purpureis, secunda submarginali ; bac maculae vel fascia? per spatium angustum, 

 venulis flavis transversis numerosis subcontiguis impletum, separatee. Venulae transversa? in reliqua ala 

 numerosissimse, invicem valde propinquae. 



c? . G-racillimus, fusco-testaceus. Elytra et alarum campus anterior fusco-senea ; elytra ad medium tertii 

 abdominis segmenti extensa, margine anteriore basi fusco-limbato. Alae angustae, ad medium 4* segmenti 

 abdominis extensae. Campus posterior venulis transversis pallidis invicem valde approximatis, scalari- 

 tessellatis; parte anteriore maeulis transversis 4 fusco- violaceis ; venulis transversis inter illas ut in 



* Saussure, to wbom the males were unknown, has confounded A. brachyptera and A. 5-maculata under 

 one species. The synonymy is therefore not correctly given in the work cited. 



