NO. 1364. AMERICAN MANTIDS—REim. 573 



four laro-c spines, antci'ior portion of the iiiterniil niai-giii bearing 

 sixteen laroe and small spines which from the distal extremit}- read 

 Iiiilililililili, discoidal spines four in number, the second one from 

 the distal extremity larger than the others, posterior poi-tion of the 

 lower face of the femora bearing- a row of seven small denticles; tibiae 

 (without apical claw) not equal to half the length of the femora, 

 external margin bearing twelve spines, the internal thirteen, the 

 external with an unarmed basal area; metatarsi over half again as 

 long as the remaining tarsal joints. Median and posterior limbs mod- 

 erately slender; the metatarsi of the median limbs consideral)ly shorter 

 than the remaining tarsal joints; metatarsi of the posterior limbs equal 

 to the remaining tarsal joints in length. 



General color pea green, suffused with brown on the head, prono- 

 tum, and limbs; eyes rich sienna, darkest above; anterior limbs with 

 the spines on the internal margin of the tibiaB and the larger coxal 

 spines red brown; wings hyaline with the costal margin, longitudinal 

 veins and transverse nervures j^ellowish green; a])domen below mar- 

 gined wnth bluish green; median and posterior femora obscurely 

 annulate with wood brown. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



mm. 



Total length 69 



Length of jironotum 28. 5 



Greatest width of pronotum 6. 2 



Length of tegmina 34 



Greatest width of tegmina 14 



Length of wings 31 



An additional female from the type locality was also examined. 



Genus VATES Burmeister. 



1838. Vates Burmeister, Handb. d. Entoni., II, p. 543. 

 Ti/pe. — Vates cnemidotus Burmeister = Mantis svhfoUata Stoll." 



VATES TOWNSENDI, new species. 



1901. Vates sp. Rehn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, XXVII, p. 221; Cuemavaoa, 

 Morelos, Mexico. 



%>..— Female; Zapotlan, Jalisco, Mexico, July S, 1902. (C. H. T. 

 Townsend.) [A. N. S. Phila.] 



This species agrees with V. tolteca Saussure and V. annectem Rehn 

 in the rotundate emargination of the marginal field of the tegmina and 

 the lobed abdomen, and shows athnity, on the other hand, with V. 

 parsensis Saussure in the elongate frontal processes. The i)eculiar 

 position of the species was recognized wdien an innnature s]iocimen 

 from Cuernavr.ca was examined, but on such evidence I d(>terred 



a According to Rehn, Canad. Entoin., XXXIII, p. 24. 



