MORGAN HEBARD 187 



In addition to the material from the collection under con- 

 sideration, we have examined 2 cf, 1 9 , from San Pedro Martir, 

 Baja California; 1 cT, Sierra el Taste, Baja California, and 3 c^, 

 11 9 , from San Jose del Cabo, Baja California. 



Stagmomantis colorata new species (Plate VII, figure 9.) 



Nearest relationship is apparently with S. calif or nica Rehn 

 and Hebard,^° agreement being found in the type of the male 

 stigma, the l)anded abdomen, ^^ features of the supra-anal and 

 subgenital plates and female head and tegmina. The much 

 larger size, opaque, unicolorous and gradually narrowing mar- 

 ginal field of the male tegmina and other less striking features 

 serve to separate these species. 



At first glance individuals of colorata somewhat resemble 

 large individuals of *S. limbata (Hahn). Males are quickly 

 distinguished by their larger size, costal margin of tegmina which 

 is proportionately narrower proximad and narrows much more 

 gradually, proximal al)dominal tergites the blackish brown 

 caudal portions of which form l)road and striking transverse 

 bands, tegmina which lack stigmal markings and wings which 

 are entirely suffused with dark brown except for irregular pale 

 patches in the anterior field, particularly distad, and the colorless 

 transverse veinlets of the radiate field. 



The single female before us has the appearance of a gigantic 

 female of S. Carolina (Johannson), but the facial scutellum is as 

 high as in this sex of limbata and the pronotal shaft is more 

 strongly medio-longitudinally carinate. This specimen is very 

 dark, the stigmal smooth area even darker than the other por- 

 tions of the tegmina and the transverse bars on the proximal 

 abdominal tergites very broad, but showing by no means as 

 great color contrast as in the males. 



In both sexes the. spines of the cephalic coxae are pale, while 

 the ephalic femora have a small fleck of blackish brown at the 

 unguicular sulcus. 



■'"One male from Sierra el Taste, Baja California and throe males from 

 San Jose del Cabo, Baja California are before us. These represent the first 

 records of califortdca from outside the United States. 



^' In the green phase of californica the cephalic tarsal joints show distad 

 on their internal surfaces only weak suffusions of brown, though in the 

 brown phase these arc as strong as in th(> individuals of colorata before us, 

 all of the latter representing the brown phase. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLVUI. 



