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Genus POLYSPILOTA Burmeister. 



POLYSPILOTA VALIDISSIMA Gerstaecker. 



1883. Polysp[ilotd\ validissima Gerstaecker, Mitth. Naturw. Ver. Neu-Vor- 

 pomm., vol. 14, p. 89. [Aburi, Gold Coast.] 



Mount Coffee, Liberia. (G. P. Goll.) One male. 



Clay Asliland, Liberia. (Mrs. J. E. D. Sharp.) One female. 



The specimens of this striking species agree well with the original 

 description and vary in dimensions but a milHmeter or so from the 

 type measurements. The range of the species is extended north- 

 westward from the Gold Coast by these records, while the most 

 southern pomt from wliich the species is known is the Gaboon 

 country (Westwood). 



The female specimen shows that there is some variation in the 

 coloring of the internal face of the cephalic coxae, these parts being 

 dark brown as in the male, while in the type female they were 

 described as blackish. 



POLYSPILOTA CALABARICA Westwood. 



1889. Polyspilota mZa6an>a Westwood, Rev. Mantid., p. 35, pi. 11, fig. 2. [Old 

 Calabar.] 



JVIount Coffee, Liberia. (G. P. Goll.) One male. 



This individual agrees quite well with the original description and 

 figure except that the transverse costal tegminal bars are more 

 regularly spaced, much as in males of P. validissima. The size is 

 slightly less than that of the type, but this is apparently notliing 

 more than individual variation. 



It is quite difficult to understand why Werner ^ synonymized 

 Miomantis armicollis Karsch w^ith this species. One of the characters 

 of this species, mentioned by the original describer, is the miarmed 

 condition of the basal portion of the pronotum, wliile armicoUis, based 

 on the same sex (male) as calaharica, has the margins of the shaft 

 with strong teeth. The range of calaharica is considerably extended 

 to the northwest by the JVIount Coffee record, the southern limit as 

 far as at present known being the Kamerun. 



POLYSPILOTA VARIEGATA (Olivier). 

 1792. Mantis variegata Olivier, Encycl. Meth., Ins., vol. 7, p. 638. [Angola.] 



Mount Coffee, Liberia. February-April, 1897, and 1897 without 

 month. (R. P. Currie and G. P. Goll.) Six males, fifteen females, 

 one immature male. 



Luebo, Kongo. (D. W. Snyder.) One male, three females. 



Of the Mount Coffee series of tliis widespread and polymorphic 

 species four males belong to the color form pustulata, two males and 



J Ber. Senck. Naturf. Ges., 1908, p. 36. 



