21,2 Werner: Philippine Mantids, or Praying Insects 149 
Total length, 20.5 millimeters; pronotum, 5; elytra, 17; ante- 
rior femora, 6.5. 
LUZON, Mount Maquiling, 1 male. 
Hystricomantis dispar sp. nov. Plate 1, fig. 2. 
This nice little mantid differs, like the preceding, from all 
typical Gonypetine by having the antennz but not the anterior 
wings ciliated and the anterior femora not finely denticulated at 
the base of the larger spines; head broad, with prominent, round 
eyes and rectangular frontal scute, the upper side somewhat 
arched; vertex rounded, with arched upper margin; pronotum 
short, smooth, distinctly dilated behind the transverse sulcus, 
metazone about one and a half times as long as prozone, lateral 
denticulation very fine; abdomen somewhat broader toward end 
in the female, parallel-sided in the male; anterior cox smooth, 
with very fine spines, the interspace between the two larger 
ones filled with two very small ones; anterior femora strong, 
upper margins straight, lower angular; five outer spines, four 
discoidal spines; tibia strong, with ten outer and twelve inner 
Spines; metatarsus as long as tibia; wings reaching far beyond 
end of abdomen, perfectly hyaline in the male (in the female the 
‘forewings are feebly infumated), costal part strongest; of the 
hind wings only the apex is brownish, with some darker points. 
Transverse veins in costal area oblique, nearly parallel, rarely 
divided; in the discoidal area wide-meshed, many of the trans- 
verse veins interrupted, the meshes nearly rectangular; body 
_bright yellowish brown; unicolored in the male, whereas in the 
female the anterior coxa has a dark reddish brown, transverse 
band at apex and also one on the anterior femur; basal part of 
the latter with dark reddish brown longitudinal streaks reach- 
ing to discoidal spines; all spines of anterior femora dark at their 
points. 
Length, male, 16 millimeters; female, 17; pronotum, male, 
3.5; female, 4; elytra, male, 15; female, 18. ° 
LUZON, Mount Maquiling, male; Mount Banahao, female: 
Tayabas Province, Malinao, female. MINDANAO, Davao, male. 
According to M. Hebard this species is the same as Amantis 
aeta Hebard.t According to Karny the female is more inten- 
Sively colored than the allotype and the color pattern more 
extensive, as shown by his fig. 2 a. As in the meantime I have 
had occasion to study Hebard’s papers here mentioned, I fully 
agree with this statement. 
*Op. cit. 31. 
