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Eyes wood-brown. Stigma of the tegmina proximally and distally 

 bordered with dark brown. Wings with the entire surface hyahne 

 except the apex, which is suffused with pale greenish. Abdomen 

 pale greenish-yellow. Anterior femora with alternate spines on the 

 internal margin basally suffused with reddish-brown. 



Measurements. 



Total length, 91 mm. 



Length of pronotum, .30.5 '' 



Greatest width of pronotum, 10.5 " 



Posterior width of pronotum, 6.5 " 



Length of anterior femora, 23 " 



Length of tegmina, 51 " 



Greatest width of tegmina, 18 " 



Greatest width of costal field of tegmina, 6 " 



The genus Rhombodera contains two structural types; one with the 

 lateral expansion of the pronotum very distinctly developed, somewhat 

 similar in superficial resemblance to that noticed in Chceradodis and 

 Deroplatys, and the other with these expansions limited or subobsolete. 

 Li a species described by Brancsik, R. tamolana,^^ is found an annectant 

 type, in which the lateral expansions are fairly well marked, but strictly 

 confined to the anterior portion of the pronotum. 



Genus MANTIS Linnaeus. 

 1758. Mantis Linnteus, Syst. Nat., X ed., p. 425. 

 Type. — Gryllus (Mantis) religiosus Linnaeus.^^ 



Mantis religiosa Linnaeus. 



1758. [Gryllus (Mantis)] religiosus Linnaeus, Svst. Nat., X ed., p. 426. 

 ["Africa."] 



Three specimens ; two males, one female : 



Chemulpo, Korea. August, 1890. (Dr. W. H. Jones.) [A. N. S. 

 Phila.] 



Yokohama, Japan. (Loomis.) [A. N. Caudell.] 



Kioto, Japan. (Y. Hirase.) [A. N. S. Phila.] 



These specimens are apparently the first Japanese records for this 

 species. Saussure^^ has recorded individuals of M. religiosa from 

 Ning-po, China, and " le sud de la Siberie j usque sur les c6tes 

 orientales de I'Asie." 



The specimen from Kioto, although a female, is much smaller than 

 the male from Chemulpo, but this may be a character of the Japanese 



'^ Jahresh. Naturwiss. Ver., Trencsen, XIX, p. 62, tab. 1, fig. 8. 

 '^ See Rehn, Canadian Entom., XXXIII, p. 119. 

 '■' Melanges Orthoptcrologiqiies, fasc. Ill, p. 415. 



