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5th Group, Stenomantes. 



Stenomantis novae-guineae (Haan). 



1842. M[atdis] (Mantis) novae-guineae Haan, in Temminck, Verh. Nat. 

 Gesch. Nederlandsche Overseesche Bezittingen, Orth., p. 7G, ])1. XVII, 

 fig. 3. [ 9 , New Guinea.] 



Fakfak, Dutch New Guinea, 1 9 . 



The pecuUar, half-atrophied organs of flight and evenly swollen 

 supra-coxal expansion with deep sulci latero-cephalad are striking 

 features in this long and very slender insect. 



Haan's figure is not as good as is usual in that work, the color 

 pattern and contour being indistinct and particularly that of the 

 supra-coxal expansion being apparently underestimated. 



The tegmina are glassy, heavily suffused with blackish mars 

 violet in the present specimen. Length of body 45, length of pro- 

 notum 17.4, greatest width of pronotum 3.1, least width of shaft 

 of pronotum 1.2, length of tegmen 15.3, width of tegminal marginal 

 field 1.2, length of caudal femur 17.8 mm. 



IV. Ambling. 

 2d Group, Gonypetae. 



Amantis reticulata (Haan). 



1842. M\antis] (Oxypilus) reticulata Haan, in Temminck, Verh. Nat. 



Gesch. Nederlandsche Overseesche Bezittingen, Ortli., p. 87, pi. XVII, 



fig. 9. [cf, 9 ; Krawang, [Java].] 

 1915. A[mantis] gestri GigUo-Tos, Bull. Soc. Ent. Italiana, XLVI, p. 154. 



[cf ; Si-Rambe and Pangherang-Pisang, Sumatra.] 



Though a meagre four-line description alone is given for gestri 

 Giglio-Tos, it is sufficient to show that the features of difference 

 are quite inadequate to warrant nominal recognition of any kind. 

 The present series shows that the cephalic metatarsi in this species 

 are entirely dark or dark only at the distal extremities, this a feature 

 oi^ individual variation, the intensive dark condition occurring, 

 however, more often in the male sex. 



Kelantan, Siam, 1 9 • 



Island of Penang, British Straits Settlements, Malay Peninsula, 

 (fromC. F. Baker), 2 d^. 



Singapore, British Straits Settlements, Malay Peninsula, (from 

 C. F. Baker), 2 cf, 3 9. 



Palabuan, southern Java, (from H. Fruhstorfer) , 1 9 . 



Labuan Island, British North Borneo, 1 <f , 2 9 . 



We find that in this species, genotype of Amantis by original 

 designation, the cephalic femora have five ventro-external spines 



