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This female has a close general resemblance to the female of 

 H. rajah Werner here recorded, but is somewhat smaller and shorter. 

 The coloration of the prosternum, mesosternum, cephalic coxse 

 and femora readily distinguish these species, which we do not be- 

 lieve will be found nearly as plastic as the species more closely 

 related to vitrea and the variable pateUifera. 



The costal margin of the tegmina is rather strongly serrate in 

 this specimen. Length of body 75, length of pronotum 28.2, great- 

 est width of pronotum 9.2, least width of pronotum 5.8, length of 

 tegmen 51, width of tegminal marginal field 6.2, length of cephalic 

 femur 23.3, length of caudal femur 23.8 mm. 



Hierodula laevicoUis Saussure. 



1870. H[ierodula] laevicoUis Saussure, Melang. Orth., I, p. 230. [cf, 

 Amboina.] 



1871. H[ierodula] ovata Saussure, Melang. Orth., I, p. 409. [9, Am- 

 boina.] 



The association of the sexes in the present series is unquestion- 

 ably correct, and shows that Saussure described the female of this 

 species as ovata. 



Island of Amboina, Moluccas, 7 cf , 2 9,1 juv. 9 , [Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia]. 



In both sexes the facial scutellum has its basal width equalling 

 its height, with lateral margins parallel in the males, very feebly 

 convergent dorsad in the females and with the two vertical and 

 parallel carinse subobsolete as to elevation but well defined through- 

 out in paler coloration, each showing an impressed puncta slightly 

 below the median point. The lateral margins of the pronotal collar 

 are smooth to very feebly tuberculate in the males, weakly tuber- 

 culate in the females. The pronotal shaft has a medio-longitudinal 

 carina, subobsolete to moderately developed in the males, moder- 

 ately developed in the females, and in the males only, the caudal 

 margin is bordered to varying degrees with a blackish brown suf- 

 fusion. The costal margins of the tegmina are smooth, showing 

 mere traces of denticulation under high magnification. The large 

 oval buffy stigma in the males contrasts strikingly with the trans- 

 parent, hyaline but brown tinged discoidal fields of the tegmen. 

 The cephalic coxse are armed with (six to eight in the series) small, 

 bluntly conical teeth in the males, with (six to seven in the series) 

 rather heavy bluntly conical teeth in the females. . 



Hierodula obiensis new species. (Plate II, figures l and 2.) 



This interesting species is closely related to H. laevicoUis Saussure, 

 both sexes differing from that species in being of smaller size, with 



