148 The Philippine J ournal of Science 1922 
IRIDOPTERYGIN4= 
Tropidomantis tenera Stal. 
Eng. Resa Ins. (1858) 314. 
The Philippine specimens agree in every respect with speci- 
mens from Java. Recorded from the Philippine Islands (Zam- 
boanga) by Hebard.? 
PALAWAN, Puerto Princesa, male and female. MINDANAO, 
Davao, 1 female. 
‘AMELIN 
Hystricomantis g. nov. aspera (Stal). Plate 1, fig. 1. 
Gonypeta aspera STAL, Gfvers. Kongl. Vetensk. Ak. Forh. Stockholm 
No. 10 (1877) 38. 
I have no doubt that this is the species very briefly described 
by Stal. Of the four conical tubercles on vertex the outer ones 
are much stronger than the median pair; besides these there are 
two prominent bicuspid tubercles between. the bases of antenne, 
and likewise a strong tricuspid tubercle near their level at inner 
margin of eyes. Pronotum strongly keeled, with abrupt rhom- 
boidal dilatation in the middle, spinose at the margins, the median 
keel and the short keels of the prozone diverging cephalad from 
the transverse sulcus; anterior cox with strong spinose outer 
and lower keel; anterior femora distinctly longer than cox, 
with concave upper margins, flat outside, with blunt longitudinal 
keel ; tibia short, with two outer and four inner spines, the latter 
increasing in length toward apex of tibia, the three outer curved; 
tarsus about twice as long as tibia; middle and hind legs very 
long and thin; wings reaching far beyond apex of abdomen, 
hyaline, somewhat infumated, elytra with very narrow costal 
area, apex washed with brown; some of the veins with dark 
brown points. The male seems to have been undescribed. 
Due to the many striking features of head, thorax, and forelegs, 
the species deserves to rank as representing a distinct genus of 
the Gonypetinz, for which I propose the name Hystricomantis. 
It lacks the ciliation of the costal margin of forewing and 
the fine denticulation of anterior femora; the antenne, how- 
ever, are distinctly ciliated. It is not related to the genus 
Myrcinus as Giglio-Tos suggested, but is related to the Oligony- 
cine (Haania) .* 
“Up. cit. 21. 
* According to M. Hebard the insect here described is not Gonypeta 
aspera Stal, but a member of the genus Haania and possibly philippina 
(Giglio-Tos). It should therefore be listed under Oligonycinz.—KARNY. 
