714 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Oct., 



slightly shorter than the pronotum, rather heavy, third discoidal spine 

 very robust, external inferior margin with four large spines, internal 

 inferior margin with fourteen spines, one of which is apical and sepa- 

 rated from the others by a considerable diastema; anterior tibiae 

 slightly less than half the length of the femora, armed on the external 

 margin with seven spines placed on the median and apical portions, 

 the internal margin armed with eleven to twelve evenly distributed 

 spines; anterior metatarsi equal to two-thirds the length of the tibise 

 and exceeding the remaining tarsal joints. Median and posterior 

 limbs with the tibite slightly shorter than the femora, genicular spines 

 slight. 



General color dull yellowish-brown (specimen taken from alcohol). 

 Anterior femora with four spots of black on the internal surface, one 

 basal, two parallel and posterior to the ungual sulcus, the superior of 

 these being the largest of any of the spots, and one anterior to the 

 sulcus. 



Measurements. 



Total length 28 mm.^^ 



Greatest width of head, 5.-5 " 



Length of pronotum 11.5 " 



Greatest width of pronotum 2.9 " 



Length of tegmina, 12 " 



Length of anterior femora, 10 " 



Two other female indi\nduals from the type locality have been 

 examined. 



Subfamily Harpaginse. 

 Genus DEROPLATYS Westwoot!. 

 1840. Deroplatys Westwood, in Duncan, Introd. to Entomology, I, p. 234. 

 Type. — Mantis {Deroplatys) desiccata Westwood. 



Deroplatys desiccata Westwood. 



1840. Mantis (Deroplah/s) desiccata Westwood, in Duncan, Introd. to Ento- 

 mology, I, p. 234, Pi. 9. [Malacca.1 



Two females; Trong. Lower Siam. (Dr. W. L. Abbott.) [U. S. 

 N. M.] 



These two specimens represent two color phases; one a pale ochra- 

 ceous and sienna l)lended to give a very effective "dead leaf" appear- 

 ance, the other a dull brownish-purple, suffused on the tegmina with 

 very dvdl greenish-gra^^ 



" This is approximate, as the abdomen is considerably distorted. 



