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yellowish face, and pale legs. The venation is green, the costal and radial 

 cross-veins marked with black in the middle, the gradate veinlets black, and a 

 few cross-veins in basal part of wing dark. The divisory cell is long and 

 slender, ending beyond the cross-vein above. There are about five inner and 

 nine outer gradates in fore wing, the two series very close to each other, 

 parallel, the outer row almost twice as near to the inner as to the outer margin; 

 the fore wings are moderately broad, acute at tips; the hind wings slender, 

 acute, the venation mostly pale, the gradates more separated than in fore 

 wings, the inner row of four, the outer of seven. The pronotum is rather short, 

 narrowed in front. 

 Expanse 30 mm. 



Allochrysa magnifica, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 10,865. Brazil: Chapada (H. H. Smith). 

 French Guiana: Godeberd-INIaroni (Le Moult). 



Dull yellowish, marked with red-brown; vertex above antennae largely 

 reddish, but the elevated triangular part is pale; basal joint of antennae with 

 a transverse black mark across upper tip, and a black spot on inner side near 

 tip, beyond many of the joints are black beneath for one half w^ay to tip of 

 antennae. Pronotum dark each side, meso- and metanotum also dark on 

 sides; abdomen dark above, paler beneath; legs pale. Wings hyaline, 

 stigma prominently dark; in proper light a dark shade from outer gradates to 

 margin of wings, veins pale, outer gradates and marginal forks dark, some of 

 costal and radial cross- veins dark at ends; eight to nine outer, and ten to 

 eleven inner gradates, parallel, but inner series extends basally; in hind wing 

 nine inner, and seven outer gradates. 



Length of fore wings 23 mm. 



Related to A. longicornis, l)ut distinct by marks of basal joint of 

 antennne. 



MANTISPIDAE. 



Mantispa verticalis, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 10,778. Australia — N. T.: Port Darwin, 30 No- 

 vember (L. Dodd). 



Head yellow; a broad median black stripe on the face, large dark spot above 

 the antennae, inclosing a median pale spot, and a broad dark band on vertex 

 from eye to eye; antennae pale on base, dark beyond; pronotum with a 

 median projection to the anterior lobe, two tubercles behind, slender part 

 more than twice as long as the anterior lobe, transversely wrinkled, but not 



