1918.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 165 



type of styles, found in a number Of kpecies of the genus; form of the 

 plate reading from sinistral portion; first, an infra-cereal, slightly 

 oblique, subtruncate, projecting portion, this rounding into a rela- 

 tively deep U-shaped emargination to the base of the styles, which 

 are placed in broadly, unequally arcuate emarginations, between 

 which is a slight, acute-angulate projection, dextrad of the styles the 

 margin is developed similarly to the sinistral portion, but the pro- 

 jection is narrower and more acute; styles in length distinctly sur- 

 passing the remainder of the subgenital plate, distinctly compressed, 

 subparallel, tapering, ventral margin thickened: cerci elongate, de- 

 pressed, subfusiform, distad greatly attenuate. Femoral margins 

 with a few weak, short spines; genicular spines stronglj^ developed 

 on median and caudal femora: arolia large. 



General color buckthorn brown. Head dull vinaceous-ruf ous ; 

 eyes cinnamon-brown; antennae with the proximal portion of the 

 dorsal surface lined with mummy brown : palpi clay color. Pronotum 

 dull mars yellow mesad, this flanked by a pair of poorly defined, 

 broad bars of dark auburn, which chverge caudad and fail to reach 

 the caudal margin of the pronotum; lateral portions of the pronotum 

 nearly colorless hyaline. Tegmina with marginal field nearly 

 colorless hyaline; humeral trunk and vicinity dark auburn. Wing 

 weakly washed with buckthorn brown, the inter-marginal costal 

 region washed, and the radiate veins pencilled with mummy brown. 

 Abdomen on both lateral aspects with indefinite marginal bands of 

 mummy brown. 



Length of body, 8 mm.; length of pronotum, 1.6; greatest width 

 of pronotum, 2.4; length of tegmen, 6.6; greatest width of tegmen, 1,8. 



In addition to the type we have before us a paratypic male bearing 

 the same data as the type. This specimen shows no differences 

 excepting a quadriramose condition of the tegminal discoidal vein, 

 which has one ramus furcate on one tegmen, and biramose on the 

 other. 



We take great pleasure in dedicating this interesting and aberrant 



species to the collector, Mr. Parish, to whose energy we are indebted 



for several extremely interesting and important series of tropical 



American Orthoptera. 



MANTID^. 



Mantinse. 

 Acontiotliespis eximia (Pascoe). 



1882. Callimantis eximia Pascoe, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (5), IX, p. 423. 

 [Nazare, near Para, Brazil.] 



Para. (C. F. Baker.) One male. 



