STUDIES IN AMERICAN MANTIDS OK SOOTHSAYERS. 



By James A. G. Rehn, 



Of Ow Academy of Natural Sciencex of Philadelphia. 



Tho .specimens treated in the following pages are contained in the 

 collections of the United States National Museum and the Academy of 

 Natural Scien(;es of Philadelphia. The greater part of the matei-ial is 

 from the Costa Rican collection of Messrs. Schild and Burgdorf, and 

 the Cul)an collection made by Messrs. Palmer and Riley. 



The author wishes to thank Dr. W, H. Ashmead of the United 

 States National Museum for the privilege of examining the material 

 from the collections under his charge. 



Subfamily ORTHODERIN-^. 



Genus CHCERADODIS Serville. 

 1831. Cha^radodis Serville, Ann. Sci. Nat., XXII, p. 50. 

 Included strumarla (Fabricius), hyallna (Stoll), and latlcollis Ser- 

 ville. 



CHGERADODIS RHOMBICOLLIS (Latreille). 



1833. Manti>^ rhotnhicollis L.\treille, in Humboldt and Bonpland, Kec. Ohserv. 

 Zool., II, p. 103, pi. xxxix, figs. 2 and 3; Equatorial America. 



One male; San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua. [U.S.N.M.] 



Subfamily M:^^LJSr'X'IN">E:. 



Genus ACONTISTA Saussure. 



1838. Acontiste/^ Burmeister, Handl). der Entom., II, p. 542. (Not of Sundevall, 



1835.) 

 1870. Acontista Saussure, in Mclang. Orthopt^rolog., Pt. 3, p. 175. 



Type. — JIantis tricolor Burmeister =J!/a;i^/s concmna Portv." 



"The originally included species were as follows: 



mncta — Slagmatoptera. 



siipplicaria — Slagmatoptera. 



cingidata — Theoclytea. 



tricolor. 



prusina — C'alidomantis {Miomantis auot. ). 



The type is seen to be /nVo/or (=rvj//(//(;;" Perty), the only uneliminated .species. 



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