708 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Oct., 



Genus SPHODROMANTIS St&l. 



1872. Sphodromantis Stal, Ofversigt K. Veten.-Akad. Forhandlingar, 28, 

 No. 3, p. 390. 



Included hioculata Burm., lineola Burm. and gastrica Stal, of which 



the latter may be selected as the type, Stal having had specimens of 



it before him when he founded the genus. 



Sphodromantis biooulata (Burmeister). 



1838. M[antls] hioculata Burmeister, Handb. der Eutom, II, p. 537. [Egypt, 

 Nubia and Syria.] 



One male and one female : 



Egypt.^ (Dr. H. C. Wood.) [A. X. S. Phila.] 



Tunis, Africa. (W. P. Chandler.) [A. N. S. Phila.] 



The remark made by Saussure and Zehntner^ concerning the small 



size of Barbary coast specimens holds true regarding the specimen 



from Tunis. 



Sphodromantis gastrica (St&l). 



1859. Mantis gastrica Stal, Ofversigt K. Veten.-Akad. Forhandlingar, XV, 



(1858), p. 307. [Eikhams, South Africa.] 

 — 1901. Sphodromantis hioculata Rehn (not of Burmeister), Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 284. [Sheikh Husein, Gallaland.] 



Two females, one immature; Zulu Mission, South Africa. [A. N. S. 

 Phila.] 



A re-examination of the immature specimen recorded by the author 

 as hioculata shows that it is undoubtedly Stal's gastrica. 



Sphodromantis rudolfae (Rehn). 



1901, Sphodropoda rudolfce Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 282. 

 [Near southern end of Lake Rudolf, western Gallaland.] 



This species is a member of the genus Sphodromantis, and allied to 

 S. gastrica, but the two species can readily be differentiated by the 

 following key. 



A. — Greatest width of the costal field of the tegmina median; tegmina 

 surpassing the abdomen; pronotum rounded anteriorly. 



gastrica Stal. 



A A. — Greatest width of the costal field of the tegmina basal; tegmina 

 not equalling the abdomen; pronotum rather attenuatca ntcriorly. 



rudolfa Rehn. 



Genus HIERODULA Burmeister. 

 1838. Hierodula Burmeister, Handli. d. Entom., II, p. 536. 

 Included mcmhranacca Burmeister { = hirivia St oil), Jujhrida Bur- 

 meister, and simidacriim Fabricius. Of these the first may be selected 

 as the type. 



' See p. 701, footnote. 



s Hist. Phys. Nat. et I'olit. Madagasc, XXIIL Pt. I, p. 180. 



