1920.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 59 



1912. H[ierodula\ maniUana Giglio-Tos, Bull. Soc. Ent. Italiana, XLIII, 

 p. 96. [d^, 9 ; Manila, Philippine Islands.] 



Saussure first pointed out the synonymy of patellifera, bipapilla 

 and maniUensis. 



From study of the literature, the material here recorded and a 

 moderately large Japanese series in the Philadelphia Collections, 

 we are convinced that we here have to deal with an exceedingly 

 plastic species. The name saussurei was proposed for a condition 

 in which the prosternum is immaculate, maniUana for a condition 

 in which the cephalic femora are suffused with black on their in- 

 ternal faces from base to unguicular sulcus. 



The prosternum varies from immaculate to a heavily twice banded 

 type, the degree of banding, when present, individually differing 

 greatly as shown in the Japanese material at hand. The macula- 

 tion of the cephalic femora appears to us to be a similarly individual 

 color variation in this insect. In this species the costal margin 

 of the tegmina is smooth, rarely showing faint traces of serrulation. 



Giglio-Tos has attempted to separate hipapiUa from patellifera 

 on the basis of differences in pronotal curvature and other features, 

 all of which we are satisfied are of no specific diagnostic value for 

 this plastic insect. 



Cuernos Mountains, Island of Negros, Philippine Islands, (from 

 C. F. Baker), 1 d". 



Manila, Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, September, 1918, 

 (R. C. McGregor), 1 9, [Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia]. 



Los Banos, Laguna, Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, (from 

 C. F. Baker), 1 9 . 



Mt. Makiling, Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, (from C. F. 

 Baker), 2 9. 



The Manila specimen, is green and has the internal face of the 

 cephalic femora suffused with blackish brown ventro-proximad. 

 The other specimens are light or dark brown, that from Los Banos 

 being much the smallest. The darkest individual from Mt. Makiling 

 is strongly mottled and has the internal face of the cephalic femora 

 weakly suffused with dark brown ventro-proximad. 



Hierodula aruana Westwood. 



1889. Hierodula aruana Westwood, Rev. Ins. Fam. Mantidarum. p. 3.5, 

 pi. IV, fig. 4. [ 9 , Aru Islands.] 



Setekwa River, opposite Aru Islands on south coast of Dutch 

 New Guinea, (A. S. Meek), 1 9 . 



