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general coloration it is similar to two specimens from Florence, Arizona. 

 The subbasal fuscous spot on the tegmina is moderately distinct, 

 but not large. 



Litaneutria skinneri Kehn. 



A single male of this species, collected at an elevation of 5,500 feet 

 on the Santa Ana River, San Bernardino Mountains, California, by Dr. 

 Joseph Grinnell, has been examined. It is inseparable from typical 

 material from the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona. 



This is the first record of the species from California. 



Stagmomantis oalifornioa n. sp. 



Types : c? and 9 ; Cottonwood, Mohave Desert, San Bernardino 

 County, California. Attracted to light. September 9, 1907. 

 [Hebard Collection.] 



Allied to S. fraterna, mon\ana and venusta Saussure and Zehntner 

 and gracilipes Rehn. From fraterna it differs in the slenderer prono- 

 tum, particularly the shaft, more prominent eyes, differently colored 

 wings in both sexes and longer pronotum and cephalic femora and 

 shorter tegmina in the male; from montana in the much smaller size, 

 proportionately longer and slenderer pronotum and much broader 

 head and differently colored wings ; from venusta in the more truncate 

 and less arcuate occiput, the less pyriform eyes when viewed from. the 

 side, the absence of black markings from the internal face of the 

 cephalic femora in the male, in the stigma being distinctly colored 

 as in the female; from gracilipes in the shorter pronotum with the 

 supra-coxal region more dilated and in the shorter limbs, the cephalic 

 femora being much broader and heavier. 



The species is in no way related to S. heterogamia Saussure and 

 Zehntner, and differs from S. Carolina in the different proportions of 

 the head and pronotum, the coriaceous costal field of the tegmina of 

 the male and in the stigma not being distinctively colored in the same 

 sex; from S. limbata it differs in the smaller size, proportionately 

 broader head, more prominent eyes, slighter pronotum (particularly 

 in the female) and the shorter and narrower tegmina of the female. 



Form moderately slender; size medium. Head quite broad, the 

 depth contained one and one-half ( 9 ) to one and two-thirds (<J*) times 

 in the width; occipital outline nearly straight, not arcuate; facial 

 scutellum with the greatest depth (median) contained slightly more 

 than twice in the width, dorsal margin obtuse-angulate, very slightly 

 fissate at the angle in the male, the lateral portions of the angle slightly 

 arcuate-emarginate ventrad of the insertion of the antennse; ocelli 



