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color. Pronotum oil green, extensively faded to brownish in this dried speci- 

 men. Tegmina glossy, colorless, hyaline, with principal veins lettuce green 

 and veinlets paler green; marginal field lettuce green; stigma a minute dot of 

 mummy brown. Wings glossy, colorless, hyaline, strongly iridescent, showing 

 delicate metallic la france pink and delicate metalhc pale turquoise blue reflec- 

 tions; costal margin and veins probably lettuce green in life, faded to yellowish 

 with traces of green in this dried specimen. Limbs immaculate lettuce green. 



The type of this deHcately beautiful insect is unique. 



Tithrone roseipennis (Saussure) 



1870. A[contista] roseipennis Saussure, Mittheil. Schweiz. ent. Gesellsch., 

 iii, p. 229. [ 9 , Guiana.] 



Pueblo Nuevo de Ocafia, Santander, IX, 3, 1916, (M. A. Carri- 

 ker Jr.), Ic^, [Hebard Cln.]. 



Montamela, Cauca, 4900 feet, VII, 29, 1908, 1 juv. 9 , [U. S. 

 N. M.]. 



Rio Aguatal, Cauca, 5250 to 7100 feet, VIII, 17 and XI, 1908, 

 19,1 juv. 9, [U. S. N. M.]. 



Stagmomantis tolteca (Saussure) 



1861. Mantis (Stagmatoptera) tolteca Saussure, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 2e ser., 



xiii, p. 127. [ [ 9 ], "Mexico calida."] 



Saussure subsequently states tha t in his opinion tolteca is merely 

 a large and richly colored form of S. Carolina. Scudder later con- 

 siders that tolteca constitutes a geographic race of Carolina. 

 Burmeister's Mantis dimidiata^^ has been frequently incorrectly 

 assigned as the green condition of either Carolina or tolteca. That 

 author later diagnosed his dimidiata more fully from a series of 

 Argentinian localities, ^^ and as the genus Stagmomantis is not 

 found in that region, it is evident that his name applies to a 

 species of some other genus. 



Until Carolina has been thoroughly and carefully studied, we 

 prefer to use the name tolteca for the robust and, in the brown 

 phase, richly colored, tropical condition. 



Santa Marta, Magdalena, XII, 26, 1910, 1 9 , [Hebard Cln.]. 



Cincinnati, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena, 4000 

 to 5000 feet, VII, 1913, (M. A. Carriker Jr.), 1 9 , [Hebard Cln.]. 



San Antonio, Cauca, 5900 to 6500 feet, X and XII, 1908, 2 9 , 

 [U. S. N. M.]. 



^* Described from South America, llandb. Ent., ii, Abtli. ii, pt. i, p. 539, 

 (1838). 



69 Berliner Ent. Zeitschr., viii, p. 237, (1864). 



