710 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Oct., 



Genus EHOMBODERA Burmeister. 

 1S3S. Rhombodera Burmeister, Handb. d. Entom., II, p. 536. 

 Included R. valida and R. laticollis Burmeister. 



Rhombodera soutata Karsch. 



1892. Rhombodera scutata Karsch, Eiitomol. Nachricliten, XVIII, p. G. 

 [Angola and Malange, W. Africa.] 



One female; three hundred miles inland from Iienguella, Angola. 

 (Misses M. and H. S. Melville.) [U. S. N. M.] 



The specimen agrees very well with Karsch's description of tliis 

 single African representative of the genus. 



Ehombodera basalis (Haan). 



1842. Mantis (Mantis) basalis Haan, in Tennninck, Verhandel. Natuurlijke 

 Geschiedenis Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen, p. 67. [Krawang, 

 Java.] 



Three specimens; two males, one female: 



Trong, Lower Siam. (Dr. W. L. Abbott.) [II. S. N. U.] 



Batu Sangkar, Tanah Datar, Padangsche Bovenland, Sumatra. 

 August-September, 1901. (A. C. Harrison, Jr., and Dr. H. :\r. Hiller.) 

 [A. N. S. Phila.] 



Goenong Soegi, Lampong, Sumatra. October-November, 1901. 

 (A. C. Harrison, Jr., and Dr. H. M. Hiller.) [A. N. S. Phila.] 



The tw^o male specimens have retained all of their original coloration, 

 which is quite striking. The Trong specimen bears more yellowish 

 than the Lampong male. Ijut the amount of rose-color on the wings 

 is about the same. The brown ring encircling the stigma mentioned 

 by Wood-Mason**^ is not completely developed in the specimens 

 examined. 

 Rhombodera megsera n. sp. 



Type: 9; Trong, Lower Siam. {Dr. W. L.Abbott.) [Cat. No. 

 6,956, U. S. N. M.] 



Belonging to the same group as flava Haan, major Saussure, lingulata 

 and tltanki Stal, taprobaiuc Wood-^Iason, and pcdoralis Westwood, 

 but closest related to major Saussure. The new form differs chiefly 

 in the less expanded pronotum. and the different armature of the 

 anterior coxae. 



Size large ; form robust. Head slightly broader than high ; occipital 

 margin broadly arcuate ; facial shield very slightly broader than high, 

 the superior margin ol)tuse-angulate, and narrower than the base; 

 ocelli rather small, the apex of the unequal triangle being inferior; eyes 

 ovoid, moderately prominent; antennse^ but slightly exceeding half 



"• Jour. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, LI, p. 32. 



