1920.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 225 



CNEPHOMANTIS'5 new namo. 



1915. Miopteryx Giglio-Tos, Bull. Soc. Entom. Ital., XLVI, p. 139. (Not 

 Miopteryx Saussure, 1869.) 



1919. Miopteryx Giglio-Tos, Ibid., XLIX, p. 60. (Not Miopteryx Saus- 

 sure, 1869.) 



Giglio-Tos' recent reference of Miopteryx granadensis Saussure to a 

 new genus Promiopteryx,~ as its genotype, is completely in error. 

 His procedure is completely nullified by the first (the present au- 

 thor's) fixation of the genotype of Miopteryx as M. granadensis.'' 

 GigHo-Tos was, doubtless, following Kirby's fixation of rustica as. 

 the genotype, » but Kirby's fixation was made a number of months 

 posterior to the indication of granadensis. The name Promiopteryx 

 is, consequently, a pure synonym of restricted Mioptenjx. It is 

 necessary, therefore, to have a new generic name for the genus 

 called Miopteryx by Giglio-Tos, and we are here proposing Cnepho- 

 maniis, selecting as genotype the species described as Miopteryx 

 fuscata by Giglio-Tos. 



Cnephomantis-o fuscatus (Giglio-Tos). 



1915. M[iopteryx] fuscata Giglio-Tos, Bull. Soc. Entom. Ital., XLVI, p. 

 139. [Brazil.! 

 Espirito Santo. One male. [Hebard Cln.] 



This specimen fully answers the brief description of Giglio-Tos^ 

 but has the pronotum faintly shorter (4.6 mm. instead of 5). 



Musoniella chopardi Cjiglio-Tos. 



1913. Miopteryx livida Chopard, Ann. Entom. Sor. France, LXXXII, p. 759. 

 (Nee Thespis livida Serville, 1839.) [Cuyaba, Matto Grosso, Brazil.] 



1916. M[usoniella] chopardi Giglio-Tos, Bull. Soc. Entom. Ital., XLVII, p. 4. 

 (Name for liidda Chopard, nee Serville.) 



Goyaz, State of Goyaz. One male. [Hebard Cln.] 

 This specimen is apparently inseparable from the insect errone- 

 ously determined as Serville's Thespia livida by Chopard, and later 

 named chopardi by Giglio-Tos. The species is a rather aberrant 

 Musoniella, showing, in its pronotai form and type of head, a ten- 

 dency toward Eumusonia. 



« From Kvl(})as gloom and [Xxvc't's Mantis, in allusion to the shaded forest habi- 

 tat of many of these small Neotropical Mantidae. 



'Bull. Soc. Entom. Ital., XLVI, p. 138. (1915). 



8 Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVII, p. 566, (February, 1904). 



'Syn. Catal. Orth., I, p. 274, (not earlier than November, 1904). 



1" We find that Chopard in his recent key to the species of the genus Miopteryx 

 as understood by him (Ann. Soc. Entom. France, LXXXII, pp. 760 and 761, 

 (1913)), has misplaced certain of the features of the species r(/.s/?;c« and argentina,- 

 the number of tibial spines given for argentina does not agree with the comments 

 of the describer, Saussure, while the color features given for the same form are 

 not those originally described, but instead those found in rustica. We have, 

 tentatively, separated as ciliata the Misiones male taken April 19, 1910, and 

 recorded by us (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1913, p. 294), from the other speci- 

 mens there referred to rustica. It is the more infumate individual mentioned 

 in the comments in that paper. 



