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It is interesting to find this tropical American genus as far 

 north as the State of Sinaloa. Previously it was not known 

 from north of Hon(kiras, though Saussure records the related 

 genus, Pseudacanthops, from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



A series of eight paratypic males have been examined, bearing 

 the same data as the type, except that they were taken from 

 June 16 to August 16, 1918. 



VATINAE 



Phyllovates chlorophaea (Blanchard) 



183.). Mantis chlorophaea Blanchard, Mag. Zool., v, Ins., p. 135. [ $ ; 

 Watertown, New York (in error).] 



The synonymy of this species will shortly be fully discussed. 

 Suffice it to say, at the present time, that but a single species 

 of Phyllovates is known to occur in Mexico. 



Vcnvidio, VII, 6 to VIII, 12, 1918, 9 d' ; IX, 2, 1918, 1 small 

 juv. 



Size variation in the present series is very great, the extremes 

 measuring as follows. Length of body, .58 to 65.-5; length of 

 fi-ontal process, 3 to 3.3; length of pronotum, 23.3 to 29.7; 

 length of pronotal shaft, 19.5 to 25.3; length of tegmen, 36.3 to 

 44.8; length of cephalic coxa, 11.1 to 14 mm. 



Vates pectinata Saussure 



1(S71. Vates pectinata Saussure, Mem. I'Hist. Nat. Mex., iv, Mantides, 

 p. 1(53, pi. n, fig. 24. [cf, Mexico?] 



Venvidio, VII, 2 to 6, 1918, 2 cf . 



This magnificent and distinctive species has, since the original 

 description, been definitely recorded from Atoyac, Vera Cruz, 

 and Teapa, Tabasco, by Saussiire and Zehntner in the Biologia, 

 where they have splendidly figured both sexes." A male from 

 Cuernavaca, Morelos, taken at light by W. L. Tower on June 

 27, 1905, belonging to the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, is also before us. 



« PI. VI, figs. 4 and 5; pi. x, figs. 30, 31 and 32. 



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