190 OKTHOPTERA. 



0. rubicunda. The coxae are granulated with black, and sprinkled with a number 

 of black spots on their inner side. The hind femora are without lobe, as in 

 0. rubicunda. 



2. Oxyops icterica, sp. n. 



2 . Prasina, sat minuta. Caput latum. Vertex quam oeuli utrinque paulum altior. Oculi lateraliter 

 producti, baud plane acuti, apice rotundati. Prothorax modice longus ; parte postica gracili ? collo 

 angusto, parallelo, quam pars postica haud subtilius denticulate), ampliatione brevi, utrinque rotundata. 

 Elytra abdominis longitudine, apice rotundata ; campo marginali sat angusto, 3 am vel 4 am partem latitu- 

 dinis elytri efficiens, omnino dense reticulato, venis obliquis nullis ; disci stigmate transverso albido- 

 calloso ; campo anali et discoidali et ad apicem areolis hyalinis consperso. Alae elytris leviter breviores, 

 apice rotundata?, opaco-flavae, apice et margine postico late hyalinis, dense navo-fasciculatis. Campus 

 anterior posteriorem parum superans, incisura anali parum profunda. Coxa3 anticae intus apice longiuscule 

 nigrae ; femora spinis apice nigris, intus ad eorum basin altera atim tuberculo nigro. Tibiae extus et ad 

 basin spinosae, spinis baseos minimis. Femorum posticorum carina infera apice lobo minimo. 



Long. 32-5 ; pronot. 12"75, elytr. 17*5, latit. elytr. 6-5, camp. marg. 2-4 millim. 



Hab. South America (Mus. Genavense).] 



[ZOOLEA, Serv. 



Zoolea, Serville, Orthopt. p. 154 (1839) ; Saussure, Bull. Soc. Ent. Suisse, iii. p. 53; Mem. Mex., 



Mantid. pp. 156, 160. 

 Vates (divisio B), Burmeister, Handb. ii. p. 544; Stal, Syst. Mant. p. 69. 



l. Zoolea macroptera, stoli. 



Mantis macroptera, Stoll, Spectr. et Mantes, t. 8. fig. 30 ( $ )• 



Zoolea lobipes, Serv. Orthopt. p. 154; Sauss. Mem. Mex., Mantid. p. 161. 



Hab. Guiana; Bbazil.] 



THEOCLYTES, Serv. 



Theoclytes (ex parte), Serville, Orthopt. p. 153 (1839) ; Saussure, Bull. Soc. Ent. Suisse, iii. p. 60*; 



Mem. Mex., Mantid. pp. 156, 172 ; Miss. Scient. Mex., Orthopt. p. 292. 

 Vates (ex parte), Burmeister, Handb. ii. p. 543. 

 Pseudovates (divisio aa), Stal, Syst. Mant. p. 74. 



Vertex bicornutus vel bidentatus. Prothorax elongatus. Pedes haud lobati. Pronotum elongatum. 



2 . Elytra campo marginali apice exciso vel oblique attenuato. Campo discoidali fasciis obliquis 2, necnon 



maculis minutis fuscis. Ala? fuscae, margine antico flavo, apice infuscato, margine exteriore pone apicem 



pallidiore. 

 cf . Elytra membranacea, vitrea, fusco maculosa ; campo marginali viridi-opaco. Alae vitrei ; margine antico 



virescente, apice fusco-punctato. Antennae moniliformes, serratae, vel intus subpectinatae. Tibiae posticae 



incurvaa. 



Synopsis specierum secundum feminas ordinatarum. 



a. Frons bicornuta, cornibus depressis. 2 elytrorum campus marginalis latiusculus, plus 

 quam tertiam partem latitudinis elytri sequans ; apice excisus, valde sinuatus ; margo 



* Erratum. — Page 53, I. c, the names Pseudovates and Theoclytes have been transposed. 



