328 MANTIDAE AND PHASMIDAE OF PANAMA 



All material collected by Biisck, Jennings and Schwarz belongs 

 to the United States National Museum, all collected by Harrower 

 and Hebard to the author's collection. 



MANTIDAE 



Of the twenty-three species and one geographic race which 

 we recognize as valid, now known from Panama, eighteen are 

 represented in the one hundred and forty-nine specimens here 

 recorded. Those not included are:^ PhyUomantis laurifolia 

 Saussure (Mantinae), Tauromantis chain pioni (Saussure and 

 Zehntner) (Mantinae), Acontiothespis cordillerae (Saussure) 

 (" Acontistinae"), Acontiothespis cordillerae vitrea (Saussure and 

 Zehntner) (" Acontistinae"), Antemna rapax Stal (Epaphroditi- 

 nae) and Votes pecti^iicornis Stal (Vatinae). 



We have followed the arrangement of Giglio-Tos, feeling that, 

 though 1)y no means final, it is a decided improvement over 

 any previous classification. That author's concept of genera 

 and species, however, is extremely unsatisfactory. 



One new genus is described, but no new genera or species are 

 represented in the material here recorded. The Mantidae is 

 undoubtedly the smallest of the families of Orthoptera in Panama. 



Eremiaphilinae 



Mantoida maya Saussure and Zehntner 



1894. Mantoida maya Saussure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., i, 

 p. 125, pi. X, figs. 26 and 27. [ 9 ; Temax, Yucatan, [Mexico].] 



Rio Trinidad, Panama, III, 14, 1912, (A. Busck), Id^. 



The colorless stigma and immaculate limbs are given as 

 characters to distinguish this species, known from Sinaloa, 

 Yucatan and southern Plorida, from the very closely allied 

 South American M. fulgidipennis Westwood. 



The measurements of this male, are: length of body, 15; 

 length of pronotum, 2.1; length of tegmen, 14.5; greatest teg- 

 minal width, 3.2; length of caudal tibia, 5.7; length of caudal 

 metatarsus, 2.4 mm. 



' All but Antemna rapax, however, are at present represented in the Phila- 

 delphia Collections. 



