332 MANTIDAE AND PASMIDAE OF PANAMA 



The Species is common and widely distributed in Panama. 

 It frequents grasses and vine tangles in the open, but usually 

 near the jungle, and when approached scrambles about hastily, 

 much as does the North American Oligonyx scudderi Saussure. 

 It is apparently very widely distril^uted over northern South 

 America, having been recorded from Colomljia, Venezuela, 

 Dutch Guiana and French Guiana, while Chopard has recorded 

 a specimen, referred to the synonymous Mionyx fuscescens, from 

 the Gran Chaco, Argentina. 



"Thespinae"8 



Angela subhyalina (Chopard) 



1913. Thespis subhyalina Chopard, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, lxxxii, p. 754. 

 [c?, 9 ; Mapiri, BoHvia.] 



Porto Bello, Panama, II, 25, 1911, 1 9, [U. S. N. M.]; Ill, 

 2, 1911, (Busck), 1 juv. 9. 



Gatun, Canal Zone, Pan., VIII, 6 to 22, 1916, (Harrower), 

 1 juv, &. 



Rio Trinidad, Pan., Ill, 15 to 30, 1911, (Busck), 1 juv. c^. 



The adult female before us, except for being somewhat larger 

 and having the membranous anal area of the tegmina dark, 

 agrees in all respects with the female described by Chopard. 

 The end of the abdomen was missing in that specimen. In the 

 present female the merest traces of meso-distal tuberculation are 

 suggested on the three tergites preceding the triangular supra- 

 anal plate. This plate is as long as its basal width, with lateral 

 margins showing exceedingly faint convexity to the almost 

 acute apex. 



So closely does this insect resemble A. qidnqueinaculata 

 (Olivier) that wel^elieve it may eventually be found to represent 

 merely a depauperate, under-developed phase of that species. 

 It differs only in the much weaker tuberculation of th(^ distal 

 abdominal tergites, the non-denticulate margins of the pronotal 

 collar in the male, the much shorter organs of flight in t he female 

 and smaller size. 



* This name falls, as Angela Servillc must be usimI for the genus incorrectly 

 recognized by Giglio-Tos as Thespis. The genus Thcspis as correctly limited 

 belongs to the eighth of Giglio-Tos' subfamilies and, as a result, no name is 

 available for this, the ninth. We believe, however, that the present is an 

 artificial grouji, not even representing a cohesive scries of genera aud, tliere- 

 lore, do not propose a name to take the place of the "Thespinae." 



