1911.] 



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MANTIN^E. 



ENTELLA Stal. 

 Entella usambarica Sjostedt. 



1909. Entella usambarica Sjostedt, Wissensch. Ergebn. Schw. Zool. Exp. 

 Kiiimandj. Meru, XVII, p. 58, PI. 4, fig. 8. [Mombo, Usambara.] 



Mombasa, British East Africa. Three males. [Hebard Collection.] 

 These specimens agree very well with the description of this species. 

 The amount of blackish maculations on the head, pronotum and 



limbs is very variable, differing in some degree in all three specimens. 



It is quite possible that E. lampeni Werner 2 from Tanga, Usambara, 



is the female of this species. 



P0LYSPIL0TA Burmeister. 

 Polyspilota variegata (Olivier). 



1792. Mantis variegata Olivier, Encycl. Meth., Ins., VII, p. 638. [Angola.] 



South Africa. One male. 



Merule to Murchison Falls, Uganda. One adult and one immature 

 female. 



Mombasa. (Hebard Collection.) One male, one female. 



The South African male and the Mombasa male belong to the 

 color-form pustulata as defined by Werner, 3 the Uganda and Mombasa 

 female to color-form striata. Indications seem to point to the fact 

 that east and south African individuals of variegata are larger than 

 west African (forest land) specimens. Liberian specimens average very 

 small, and specimens from the eastern edge of the great forest, west 

 of Albert Nyanza, recorded by the author 4 are very similar. Luebo, 

 Congo, specimens, however, are like southern individuals. 



The specimens in the present series measure as follows : 



2 Jahresb. Ver. Vaterland. Naturk. Wilrttemberg, LXII, p. 364. 



3 Bericht Senckenb. Naturf. Gesell., 1908, p. 38. 



4 Ergebn. Deutsch. Cent.-Afr. Exped. 1907-1908, unter Fuhrung Adolf Fried. 

 Herzog zu Mecklenburg, Zool., Orthoptera. 



