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appendages ; elytra oval or lanceolate with entire borders. The second, 

 Lobipedes, is distinguished chiefly by the appendages found on some part of 

 the body or feet, 



The former group is divided into two tribes, Orfkoderii and Mantii; the 

 former having the prothorax straight, the sides parallel, and the front not 

 attenuate, while the latter has that portion of the prothorax over the ante- 

 rior coxa; more or less expanded, and the front attenuate or convergent. 

 The three species here mentioned belong to the latter tribe. 



This tribe is separable into two divisions distinguished by the form of 

 the super-anal plate ; in the first (Mantitcs, Sauss.), it is transverse, or in the 

 form of a .short triangle ; in the second (ThespUes, Sauss.), it is elongate- 

 triangular or lanceolate. 



Saussure, in his synoptical table of the genera of the Mantii, groups 

 the genera under the following headings : 



I. Super-anal plate transverse, or a short triangle Mantites. 



a. Tlie discoidal vein of the wing of the g 9 undivided or furcate. 

 (/. The discoidal vein of the wing of <J ramose : 

 b. Species small ; prouotnm short. 

 bb. Species larpe ; pronotnm more or less elongate; body robust; abdomen 



rhouiboidal or fusiform or narrow: 

 c. Elytra of the 9 squretniform. 

 cc. Elytra and wings of the 9 complete. 



It is to this last subdivision, embracing some six or seven genera, that 

 the species in this collection belong. 



MANTIS (?). 



It is possible this is new ; but as it bears a strong resemblance in some 

 respects to M. Carolina, I have not ventured to describe it as a new species 

 from the single alcoholic specimen before me. 



Female. Elytra greenish-yellow, unspotted ; stigma small, oblong, 

 same color ; extending to the margin of the penultimate segment of the 

 abdomen. Wings similarly colored, with yellow interneural fasciae ; dis- 

 coidal vein furcate. Stature that of M. Carolina. These characters would 

 appear to place it between Cardioptera and Stagmatoptera ; it may belong- 

 to the southern form of Stagmomantis Carolina which Saussure has separated 

 as a distinct species, it is therefore impossible to determine accurately its 

 position without the male. 



