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becoming almost tliimblelike punctures; no median nor V-shaped 

 carina on propodeum, but just cephalad of insertion of abdomen a 

 semicircular carina surrounding the posterior area of propodeum; 

 \\'ings subhyaline, with a small infuscated stigmal spot; front and 

 middle legs, including coxae, testaceous; posterior coxae bluish, elong- 

 ate, subcylindrical, as long as their femora; hind femora and tibiae 

 broAMi, the tarsi testaceous; hind femora with about 9-10 teeth, two 

 or three of them being mere tubercles; abdomen petiolate, the petiole 

 almost half the length of the hind coxae; abdomen bro%vn, the base 

 lighter, the petiole more reddish. 



Male. — Length, 4 mm. Similar to the female, the antennae 

 entirely reddish testaceous; the thorax more greenish, the hind femora 

 and tibiae somewhat darker, the petiole shorter, the sculpture of the 

 propodeum more like transverse rows of punctures. 



Hahitat. — Punduloya, Ceylon. 



Five females and one male reared from egg capsule of Mantis, sp. 

 by Mr. E. Ernest Green, after whom the species is named. 



Type.— C&L No. 14341, U.S.N.M. 



PODAGRION KOEBELEI, new species. 



Female. — Length, 4 mm.; ovipositor, 8 mm. Green, the venter 

 testaceous; the antennae brown, with a ring joint, the scape at base 

 in front testaceous, the club not enlarged (see fig. 2) ; head and thorax 

 closely punctured, the punctures on the median lobe of the mesoscu- 



tum thimbleUke ; those on the apical 

 part of the scutellum finer than in- 

 the anterior part; lateral lobes of 

 FiG.2.-PoDAGRiox^K0EBELEi. ANTENNA OF mcsoscutum rcticuktcd, along the 



inner margins almost transversely 

 striate; propodeum punctured, with a median longitudinal carina 

 which extends backward to about middle of propodeum where it 

 divides each branch running laterad and slightly caudad; laterally 

 these branches each join a longitudinal carina which extends from the 

 apex of the propodeum almost to the anterior margin ; back of the 

 transverse carina are several irregular rugae; cox^-, front and hind 

 femora, except bases and apices, metalhc; rest of legs reddish testaceous 

 more or less suffused mth brown ; hind coxae elongate, somewhat thick- 

 ened basally; hmd femora with about six teeth; mesepistemum punc- 

 tured, upper section of mesepimeron famtly lineolate, lower section 

 distinctly so; metapleurae reticulately rugulose; abdomen subsessile. 



J/aZe.— Length about 2.5 mm. Very Hke the female except in 

 secondary sexual characters. 



Habitat. — Australia. 



Many specimens reared from a mantid egg mass by Mr. Koebele 

 (after whom the species is named) and with his note number 606, 

 the note saying they came from South Australia. 



