BY E. PETEKSEN. 643 



and with a transverse blackish-brown impression below each 

 antenna. Labrum with a dark spot; tip of mandibles black- 

 ish. Antennae 31-jointed, reddish-brown basally, becoming 

 darker towards apex; basal joint stout, conical, yellowish on 

 the underside, second joint globular, third joint cylindrical ; 

 the remainder broader than long. Pro- 

 thorax reddish-brown, a little darker 

 in its dilated frontal part, which is one- 

 third of the whole length ; the two 

 basal thirds strongly sulcate and rugose 

 transversely. Pro- and metathorax 

 granulated; each granule provided with 

 a short black bristle. Meso- and meta- 

 thorax and the abdomen dark brown 

 to blackish in the male, paler in the 

 female; the abdominal segments with Mantispl^'^liprk 6 , ^V^^ 

 a whitish-yellow spot at each side. Lateral view of tip of 



Venter of abdomen greyish-yellow, * ^ omen, 



with a darker median streak. Legs and coxae yellowish-brown: 

 the innerside of fore-femora a little darker. Wings hyaline ; 

 nervation reddish-brown except radius, subcosta and base of 

 the other longitudinal nervures, which are paler. Pterostigma 

 sanguineous, very long, extending from base of second radial 

 sector and nearly to the tip of the third. 



Length of forewing 15 mm. 



Cuballing, April, 1913, one male in Coll. Tillyard.— Vic- 

 toria, one female, in Coll. Petersen (ex Coll. Hauschild, Copen- 

 hagen). 



Theristria. 



Gerstaecker, Mitth. naturw. Ver. Neuvorp. u. Riigen, xvi., 

 p. 43(1884). 



Theristria felina. (PI. Ixxv., fig. 11). 



Gerstaecker, ibid., p. 44. 



Face yellowish, maxillary palpi yellowish, apical joint 

 brown ; mandibles brown ; at the base of labrum and of 

 clypeus a brown median spot ; each antenual insertion circum- 



