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but distinctly denticulate on the collar, with shaft showing a weak 

 but distinct medio-longitudinal carina. The tegmina and wings 

 reach only to base of supra-anal plate. The tegmina are opaque, 

 with stigma more decided. The cephalic coxae are armed with 

 (six and seven) rather heavy, rounded teeth. ^^ The supra-anal 

 plate is very strongly transverse, its length hardly over one-fifth 

 its basal width, with distal margin very broadly convex. 



Male with head ochraceous-tawny, facial scutellum with two 

 small suffusions of slate color meso-laterad, eyes dark hazel. Pro- 

 notum cinnamon-brown, caudal margin and proximal portion of 

 lateral margins for a brief distance suffused with blackish brown. 

 Tegmina with marginal fields opaque, biscay green, the numerous 

 irregular veinlets vinaceous-brown; remaining portions transparent, 

 clear hyaline, except the transverse veinlets, which are all briefly 

 mummy brown from the points of intersection with the veins. 

 Limits pale green. Cephalic femora with the first and third dis- 

 coidal spines tawny, the longer spines of the ventro-internal margin 

 tawny, each with a small basal suffusion on the limb of tawny. 



Female with occiput between eyes mummy brown, eyes rich 

 tawny, face light ochraceous salmon, facial scutellum with a small 

 slate colored suffusion meso-laterad on each side, which is slightly 

 larger than in the male. Caudal portion of occiput, all of pronotum 

 and limbs snuff brown, the pronotum somewhat irregularly tinged 

 with blackish brown caudad. Spines of cephalic coxae light buff, 

 larger femoral spines tawny as in male. Tegmina opaque, pale 

 yellowish green, ''^ stigma cream color. 



Length of body d' 52.8, 9 54.6; width of head d" 7, 9 8; length 

 of pronotum d 17, 9 19; greatest width of pronotum cf 4.9, 9 5.8; 

 least width of pronotum cf 2.9, 9 3.1; length of tegmen cf 41.2, 

 9 28.6; width of tegminal marginal field cf 2.9, 9 3; stigma d 3.2 

 by .7, 9 2.9 by .8; length of cephalic femur cf 12.7, 9 14.7; length 

 of caudal femur cf 14.3, 9 14.9 mm. 



This species is known from the single pair. 



Hierodula sorongana (Giglio-Tos) . 



1912. P[arhierodula] sorongana Giglio-Tos, Bull. Soc. Ent. Italiana, XLIII, 

 p. 120. [ 9 ; Mansinam and Sorong, New Guinea.] 



Haidana, Collingwood Bay, British New Guinea, April to May, 

 1907, (from A. S. Meek), 1 c^. 



^^ In this respect the contrast between the sexes is exactly as in laevicollis. 

 *" Apparently decidedly faded from the coloration in life. 



