MORGAN HEBARD 189 



varying shades of) brown. Cephalic tarsal joints each marked distad, on 

 internal surface, with a heavy fleck of blackish brown"". Median and caudal 

 limbs light green or brown. Abdomen always with proximal tergites shining 

 and each heavily blackish brown distad, this forming very conspicuous 

 broad, transverse bands. Tegminal marginal field opaque, light green; 

 remaining portions transparent, colorless except for scattered flecks of brown 

 l)roximad and much more numerous, fusing, similar suffusions toward the 

 marginal field. Wings with anterior field transparent, colorless with brown 

 flecks distad, which fuse proximad, leaving only irregular paler yellowish brown 

 patches between; radiate field transparent, metalUc purplish-black, with 

 minute, transverse veinlets pale, and a paler pinkish area at base. 



In a very recessive pa^at}^^e from San Jose del Cabo, the tegmina show- 

 no brown suffusions, but the wings and abdomen are as strikingly colored as 

 in the type. 



Female. Brown phase. Markings of cephalic femora and tarsi as in 

 males, abdominal bands broader but much less contrasting, bister. Tegmina 

 opaque, bone-brown; stigma shining and still darker. 



Measurements (in millimeters) 



Width of 



pronotal Length of Width of 



Length of Length of supra- pronotal Length of tegminal 

 body pronotum coxal shaft tegmen marginal 



expansion field 



cf 



Villa Union, ?(//JC.. .. 09. 5 22.7 4.2 17.4 44.7 2.2 



Tepic, paratypr 58 20.3 4.2 1.5.7 46 2.2 



Tepic, paratype 61 20.2 4.2 1.5.4 44 2.4 



San Jose del Cabo, 



paratype 66 21.7 4.4 16.8 50.2 2.4 



9 



Venvidio, c//o?!/pc. .. 8.3.5 30.7 7.7 22.9 29 2.8 



In addition to the descril^ed pair, two paratypic males from 

 Tepic, a paratypic male from San Jo.se del Cal)0, Baja California, 

 and three large immature individuals (two males and one fe- 

 male) from Vcnvidio, Sinaloa, taken August 18 and 28, 1918. 

 by J. A. Kusche, are in the author's collection. 



EPAPHRODITINAE 

 Acanthops bidens new species (Plate VII, figures 10 and 11.) 



This handsome species is readily distinguished by the dentate 

 production of each juxta-ocular area of the occiput. It is appar- 

 ently nearest the Honduran A . godmani Saussure and Zehntner, 



*^ In species of Stagmomantis such marking often disappears in specimens 

 of strong recessive coloration. This character is, therefore, of highly uncertain 

 specific diagnostic value, and Giglio-Tos' recent use of it in that sense has 

 probably resulted in the erection of one or more sjiion^nns. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLVIII. 



