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Stouter than numerous specimens from Texas (Boll, Belfrage, Lincecum), 

 which altogether agree with O. bollianns., as do specimens sent me from 

 Lincoln, Nebr., by Bruner, as Mantis 7}iissouriensis. I am therefore 

 inclined to believe these two supposed species to be identical, and proba- 

 bly distinct from Stal's darker O. U/iieri, which I have not seen. 



Bactromantis {ftaKTpov, Mantis), gen. nov. 



Closely allied to OligonyK, and, indeed, equivalent to the second 

 division of that genus by Stal (Bihang K. Svensk. Akad. Handl., iv., No. 

 lo, 67), to which he refers an unnamed species from Mexico. It com- 

 prises those species hitherto placed in Oligonyx (Stal, emend.) as have 

 a very elongate instead of abbreviate pronotum, in which the hinder 

 section is fully twice as long as the fore section. To it belongs only a 

 single species from the United States, which may be called B. virga 

 (possibly the species given in Westwood's Synopsis as Thesprotia bacu- 

 Una Bates MS., from Eastern Florida may be the same). I have only 

 seen the apterous female ; it is testaceous, the fore femora obscurely and 

 narrowly banded with fuscous, the other legs greenish yellow ; the apex 

 of the femora broadly, the base and apex of the tibise narrowly, infus- 

 cated. Length of body, 43 mm.; of pronotum, 15 mm. Sandford, 

 Fla.; collected by Frazer. 



Thesprotia Stal. 



We have a single species of this genus, T. graminis, named by 

 Bates and described by me many years ago as an Oligonyx. 1 described 

 only the $ ; the $ is apterous. It occurs in Florida, from Key West 

 northward, and in Georgia. 



Subfamily Vatin^e. 

 Theoclytes Serville. 

 I here follow Saussure rather than Stal in restricting Serville's genus 

 to his first subdivision, or what Serville at the outset terms Theoclytes 

 proprie dicta. The only species known in the United States is T. 

 chlorophcea (Blanch.), which occurs throughout Mexico, and is said to 

 extend, says Saussure, to the United States as far as New York. It was 

 originally described from VVatertown, N. Y., but has since been recorded 

 only from Central America, Mexico, and Louisiana. Saussure remarks 

 that it probably does not extend northward beyond the Southern States. 

 This seems altogether probable. The only specimen I possess comes 

 from just over the Texan border at Matamoras, 



