128 FAMILY III. MANTIDJE. THE MANTIDS. 



six different localities in that State at which it had been taken. 

 Of these Isle of Hope was the most northern and they state that 

 it will doubtless be found to occur in southern South Carolina. 

 It has been received by Davis from Mississippi and a female in 

 the U. S. National Museum is labelled New York, but doubtless 

 represents an adventive or accidentally introduced specimen. 



Subfamily IT. EREMIAPHILIN^;. 



In this subfamily the body is rather slender, pubescent; head 

 large, eyes prominent, globose; pronotum short, subquadrate, not 

 dilated above the front coxa? (Fig. 50, b) ; tegrnina elongate, mem- 

 branous ; legs short, slender ; abdomen filiform, flattened ; supra- 

 anal plate very short. A single genus and species represent the 

 subfamily in the United States. 



I. MANTOIDA Newm., 1838, 178. (Gr., "prophet" + "like.") 



In addition to the characters of the subfamily as above given, 

 this genus has the front of head vertical, antennae rather stout, 

 much longer than body ; wings shorter than tegmina, their axil- 

 lary field much shorter than the humeral one; front tibiae termi- 

 nating in a stout claw or spine; middle and hind legs densely 

 clothed with seta-like hairs. Our only species is 



51. MANTOIDA MAYA Sauss. & Zehnt, 1894, 125. Little Yucatan Mantis. 



Female fulvous-testaceous. Head large; eyes very prominent, glo- 

 bose; ocelli small rounded-oval; occiput black with broad yellow median 

 stripe; face and antennae blackish-fuscous, first joint of latter testaceous 

 beneath. Pronotum black with median vitta and lateral margins dull yel- 

 low. Tegmina and wings nebulous-hyaline, with brownish ferruginous 

 veins, the costal margins darker; tegminal stigmata vitreous. Legs tes- 

 taceous; front femora stout, angulate within at base, their spurs brown; 

 front tibise black above the apex, spines and apex also black, seven spines 

 on inner side longer than claw, four on outer side; middle and hind tibia,- 

 and tarsi armed beneath with a row of minute spines along each margin, 

 their tips densely spinulosely pilose. Abdomen slender, blackish-fuscous, 

 beneath and at apex varied with testaceous or fuscous. Supra-anal plate 

 strongly developed, transverse, obtusely angulate; subgenital plate of equal 

 length. Length of body, 9, 15.5; of pronotum, 2.3; of front femora, 3.3; 

 of tegmina, 12.5 mm. 



This little mantid was described from northern Yucatan and 

 the first record for this country was that of Caudell (Con. Ent.. 

 1911, 156), based on a specimen from Florida (probably from 

 Ivissimmee) found in the collection of the late Chas. Palm. It was 

 labelled "Mantispa, sp. Neuropt," as it bears a close resemblance 



