340 MANTIDAE AND PHASMIDAE OF PANAMA 



Specimens of this species are before us representing localities 

 from Mexico to Colombia.^'* 



Stagmomantis theophila Rehn 



1904. Stagmomantis theophila Rehn, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, p. 563. 



[cf ; Turrialba, Costa Rica.] 

 1904. Stagmatoptera insatiabilis Rehn, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvn, p. 572. 



[ 9 ; Turrialba, Costa Rica.] 



1916. S[(agmomantis] denticulala Chopard, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, lxx.xv, 

 p. 162. Id' ; Chimbo, Ecuador.'s] 



1917. S[tauromantis] fcstae Giglio-To.s, Boll. Soc. Ent. Italiana, XLvni, p. 55. 

 [cf , 9 ; Guayaquil and Vinces, Ecuador.] 



Comparison of the male type of Sfagmonianti.'i theophila Kehn 

 with the female type of Stagmotoptern insatiabilis Rehn con- 

 firms the synonymy established by Giglio-Tos.^^ 



The coloration of theophila was not clearly described; this, 

 the iarger size and the widely separated locality apparent]}^ 

 account for Chopard 's denticulata. It would appear that 

 Giglio-Tos had not seen the description of denticulata at the 

 time he described fcstae. Distinct size variation occurs, the 

 Ecuadorean male described by Giglio-Tos being somewhat 

 smaller than those described by Chopard, which in turn are 

 somewhat smaller than three Ecuadorean males before us.*^ 

 These in turn also are somewhat smaller than the known Pana- 

 manian and Costa Rican males. 



Porto Bello, Panama, IV, 20, 1912, (Busck), 1 d". 



Rio Trinidad, Pan., Ill, 15 to VI, 6, 1912, (Busck), 5 cf . 



Cabima, Pan., V, 18, 1911, (Busck), 2 d". 



Ancon, Canal Zone, Pan., (Jennings), 1 juv. cf. 



^^ We have discussed the close relationship to S. Carolina (Johansson), 

 Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, xlv, p. 132, (1919). The present comparison shows 

 further difference, in that the male of lolteca has the margins of the pronotal 

 collar finely denticulate, tliis sometimes indicated, though even more weakly, 

 on the cephalic portion of the pronotal shaft. 



'^ Dr. Chopard has written us that this type is in Ihe Polivar Collection. 



18 Boll. Soc. Ent. Italiana, xlviii, p. 55, (1917). 



"In the collection of the Academy of Natural Scienc^es of Philadelphia; 

 two from Paramba and one from Lita, Ecuador. In these the pronotum 

 ranges from 17.2 to 17.7, the tegmina from 37.8 to 38 inm, in length; the 

 pronotum from 3.5 to 3.6 in greatest width. 



