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armed with (eight and ten) small and very bluntly rounded spines 

 which become slightly longer than wide distad, these irregularly 

 interspaced with a few minute spinulse, other margins roughly and 

 bluntly nodulose. Cephalic femora with the characteristic arma- 

 ment of ililililililiil spines, genicular lobes each supphed with 

 a very minute, blunt, short, stout spine. Cephalic tibiae with 

 ventral margins armed with eleven external and fourteen internal 

 spines. 



Head, pronotum, body and limbs tawny olive. Cephalic femora 

 with a broad but weakly defined transverse suffusion of warm sepia. 

 Tegmina with marginal fields and adjacent portions proximad 

 mars brown; remaining portions transparent, very faintly tinged 

 with mars brown ; stigma cream color, with a brief but heavy suffusion 

 proximad and distad of blackish chestnut brown. Cephalic coxae 

 with distal fourth of internal surface shining black," apex of cephalic 

 trochanters and adjacent area of cephalic femora blackish brown. 

 First and third discoidal spines and all large spines of ventrb-internal 

 margin of cephalic femora blackish brown, this color very briefly 

 suffusion the femoral surface at the bases of all the large marginal 

 spines. Prosternum with four small flecks of blackish brown in 

 its caudal portion, mesosternum with two larger flecks of the same 

 coloration. 



Length of body 70, width of head 9.6, length of pronotum 22.8, 

 greatest width of pronotmn 12.4, length of pronotal shaft 16.7, 

 length of unexpanded portion of shaft 7.3, width of unexpanded 

 portion of shaft 5.7, length of tegmen 56, width of tegminal marginal 

 field 5, length of cephalic femur 17.9, length of caudal femur 18.8 

 mm. 



The type of this handsome insect is unique. 



RHOMBODERA Burmeister. 

 1838. Rhombodera Burmeister, Haiidb. Ent., II, Abth. II, pt. 1, p. 536. 

 1912. Rhomboderula Giglio-Tos, subgenus of Parhierodula Giglio-Tos, 

 Bull. Soc. Ent. Italiana, XLIII, p. 130. 



Having selected Rhombodera saussurei Kirby as genotype of 

 Rhomboderula in the present paper, we find this species to be con- 

 generic with Mantis valida Burmeister, genotype of Rhombodera. ^^ 

 The resultant synonymy is indicated above. 



^^ The following features of coloration have been extensively used by Giglio- 

 Tos in characterizing the species of Hierodula and its allies. In the present 

 group we feel that individual variation occurs in at least some of the species and 

 must be taken into consideration. 



68 Selected by Kirby. Syn. Cat. Orth., I, p. 248, (1904). 



