N*^ 1 :«■'<• AMERICAN MANTID.S—REHN. r^(\1 



with two pairs of yhort diMitiform processes on the collar and two 

 })airs on the shaft, one pair placed anteriorly and wide apart, the 

 other median and close together, posterior niaroin with a median proc- 

 ess; lonoitudinal carina present on thc^ shaft, most ai)parent ])oste- 

 I'iorly. Teu-mina and wings hardly visible. A})domen fusifonn, 

 depressed. Supra-anal plate produced, triangular, a[)ex acute angu- 

 late, lateral margins slightly arcuate, dorsal sui'face longitudinally 

 carinate. Cerci small, not exceeding the supra-anal plate in length, 

 depressed. Subgenital plate compressed, produced, not equaling the 

 supra-anal plate in length, apex developed into a little rounded kiiol). 

 Ant(n'ior coxte slightly exceeding the pronotum in length, lower mar- 

 gins both supplied through their entire length with dentiform spines, 

 those of the internal margin being decidedly the smaller; femora verv 

 stout and heavy, external margin with five spines, one of which is 

 apical, discoidal spines three in number; tibiiie about half the length 

 of the femora, external and internal borders bearing eight spines, 

 which increase in size toward the apical claw; metatarsi exceeding- the 

 remaining tarsal joints in length. Median and posterior limbs slender. 

 General color brownish black, becoming very dull rufescent on the 

 internal faces of the anterior coxa?; limbs obscurely mottled and annu- 

 late with dull ochraceous. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



mm. 



Total lengtli 20 



Length of pronotum 5.5 



Greatest width of pronotum 3 



Greatest width of abdomen 5. 7 



Genus PARAMUSONI A, new name. 



1894. ilfw.so)/*'o Saissure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent. -Amer., Orth., I, p. (54 (not 

 of Stal, 1877). « 



Type. — By selection, Thespis oubensis Saussure. 



PARAMUSONIA CUBENSIS (Saussure). 



1869. T/( [f.s/>/.s] n</>^H.s(,s Saussure, Bull. Hoc. Knt. Suisse, III, )•. 70; Cuba. 



One male; Pinar del llio, Cuba. March 27, 1900. (Palmer and 

 Kiley.) [U.S.N.M.J 



" Stal's genus Musonia (Bihang till K. Svenska ^'et. Akad. Handlingar, IV, no. 10, 

 ]>. 45), contained but two species — Hurinamn Sau.ssnre and lineafirnitri.i Stal. Both of 

 these were i)laced in Mioiu/.r l)y Saussure and Zehntner (Biol. Cent. Amer., Orth., 

 I, (>p. 106-1(57). As no included species are given in theoriginal of ^f^()nl|.r (Societa.>< 

 Entomologica, VII, 1892, p. 122), the treatment in the Biologia is the fii-st to give us 

 any of the included species. Thus Miontjx Saussure becomes a synonym of Mmonia 

 Stdl, while a new name is required for the Mmonia of Saussure aoid Zehutner. 



