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CAR VI LI A St&L 



Carvilia agrionina (Gerstaecker). 



1869. Mantis (Photina) agrionina Gerstaecker, Archiv fur Naturgesch.. 

 XXXV, p. 209. [Mombasa.] 



1898. Paras phendale minor Schulthess-Schindler, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat., 

 Genova, XXXIX, p. 177. [Webi River, Ogaden, Biduara, Errer, Somali- 

 land.] 



1901. Parasphendale minor Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 285. 

 [Sheikh Husein and Tulu, Gallaland.] 



Kikuyu Escarpment, Brit. East Africa. One immature male. 



Harrar, Abyssinia. One female. 



This latter specimen and the Sheikh Husein individual referred to 



above measure as follows : 



Length of body, .... 

 Greatest width of head, 

 Length of pronotum, 

 Greatest width of pronotum, 

 Length of tegmen, . 

 Length of cephalic femur, . 



The form minor of Schulthess does not appear separable specifically 

 from Gerstaecker's species, the Sheikh Husein individual being nearly 

 topotypic of minor, and both this and the Harrar specimen are insepa- 

 rable from material from the region to the south. Werner has recorded 

 this species from the vicinity of Harrar and from Djildessa on the 

 border region of Somali and Galla lands. 



CREOBOTRIN^E. 

 OXYPILUS Serville. 

 Oxypilus oapensis (Saussure). 



1871. Ox[ypihis] capensis Saussure, Melanges Orthopter., Ill, p. 317, PI. 6, 

 figs. 52, 52a. [Cape of Good Hope.] 



German East Africa. One female. 



This specimen / when compared with individuals of O. annulatus 

 Serville, shows that the two species are closely related, differing chiefly 

 in the more inflated median portion of the pronotum in capensis, 

 which also has the pronotal tubercles more numerous. 



HARPAGOMANTIS Kirby. 



Harpagomantis tricolor (Linnaeus). 



1758. [GryUus (Mantis) ] tricolor Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., X ed., I, p. 426. 

 ["Indiis."] 



South Africa. Three females. 



Johannesburg, Transvaal, 6,000 feet. January- April, 1899. (J. P. 

 Cregoe.) Two adult females, one immature female. 



