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Queensland, Australia, 2 cf . 



This species is now known to have a wide distribution over the 

 Australian continent. 



Sphodropoda quinquedens (MacLeay). 



1827. Mantis quinquedens MacLeay, King's Survey Intertrop. Coasts 

 Australia, II, p. 4.54. [Northern and western coasts of Australia.] 



Queensland, Australia, 1 9 . 



The striking sculpture and coloration of the internal faces of the 

 cephalic femora, which bear four buffy, elevated, transverse lines 

 on the otherwise glossy ochraceous -tawny surface, are distinctive 

 features in this species. 



11th Group, Mante.s. 



Statilia maculata (Thunberg and Lundahl). 



1784. M[a)Uis] maculata Thunberg and Lundahl, Dissert. Ent. Novas 



Ins. Spec, pt. Ill, p. 61. [Japan.] 

 1912. S[tatilia\ haanii var. hyalina GigHo-Tos, Bull. Soc. Ent. Italiana, 



XLIII, p. 7. [Japan.] 



We can not agree with Giglio-Tos in recognizing the species here 

 considered as S. haanii (Saussure). Among the Japanese Mantidae, 

 Thunberg and Lundahl's description of maculata fits this species 

 and this species only.''^ Their statement "thorace alato spinuloso" 

 we interpret to mean that the spinulse along the lateral margins^ 

 of the pronotum project outward, as indeed they do. Saussure's 

 haanii has long, and properly, been placed in synonymy under 

 maculata. 



Giglio-Tos has proposed the name hyalina for a specimen evi- 

 dently showing an extremely recessive coloration. We therefore 

 place this name in the present synonymy as having no systematic 

 value. 



Khasia Hills, Assam, 1 9 . 



Labuan Island, British North Borneo, 4 c?', 6 9 • 



Sandakan, British North Borneo, (from C. F. Baker), 2 cf . 



Obi Island, Moluccas, 2 cf . 



All of the specimens here recorded show the characteristic mark- 

 ings of the cephalic coxae and femora. In the series the extremes 

 of pronotal length are: cf 12.8 to 14.2, 9 14.8 to 17.3; the extremes 

 of greatest pronotal width, cf^ 3.1 to 3.7, 9 4 to 4.9 mm. 



statilia nemoralis (Saussure). 



1870. Pseudomantis nemoralis Saussure, Mitt. Schweizer Ent. Ges. Ill, 

 p. 229. [ 9 ; Manila, [Philippine Islands].] 



^'' A large Japanese series of the .species, in the Academy and Hebard Collec- 

 tions, is before us. 



