144 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Vol. xiv. 



37. Oxyops rubicunda Stoll. 



Mantis rubicunda Stoll, Reps. Spectres, Mantes, p. 73, Fl. 25, fig. 26 (1813). 

 Stagmatoptera diluta, $ (nee Q )> S.iuss., Mem. Mex. Mant., p. 87, pi. 1, fig. 

 6(1871). 



A single specimen, a female, is at hand. It was collected and 

 sent to me from Port of Spain by H. D. Chipman. 



38. Parastagmatoptera vitrepennis, new species. 



Most closely related to /'. unipuncta (Burm.) and /'. tessellala Sauss. et Zehnt., 

 from both of which it differs in its somewhat smaller size, slenderer form (?) and 

 shorter tegmina. The prothorax is almost without the marginal dentation of uni- 

 puncta, while the tegmina are considerably shcrter than the wings. The margi- 

 nal field of 'he former is green and opaque on the basal half. 



Lower inner apical third of coxa.' black. Prothorax, coxae and femora, to- 

 gether with antenna; and marginal border of folded tegmina and outer portion wings, 

 testaceo ferruginous ; the head and tibiae with a greenish tinge. Greater portion of 

 the tegmina and wings vitreous, very faintly greenish tinged. 



Length of body, s \ 34, of pronotum, 12, width of its dilation, 

 2.15, length of tegmina, 24, width of tegmina, 6, of the marginal 

 field, 1.4 mm. 



Habitat. — A single male, Trinidad, W. I. (H. D. Chipman, 

 Coll.) The type is in the author's collection. 



39. Stagmatoptera prsecaria Linneus. 



Gryllus [Mantis) prcecarius Linn.. Syst. Nat. (ed. X), I, p. 426, No. 7 ( 175S) . 



Mantis precaria DeGeer, Mem. Ins., Ill, pp. 406, 407, No. 3, pi. ^7, figs. 4, 

 8, 9 (1773). 



And a number of synonyms. 



Habitat. — W. E. Broadway has sent me 1 S and 2 + ^ of this 

 common large South American mantis. It was collected on the 

 Island of Trinidad. 



Family PHASMID.E. 



40. Clonistria linearis Drury ? 



Jim/is linearis Dru., Illustr. Exot. Ent. I, pi. 50, fig. 3 ( 1773 I- 

 Bacteria linearis Gray, Syn. Phasm., p. 17 (1835); Westw. Gat. Phasm. Brit. 

 Mus., p. 24, No. 64 (1859). 



(?) Clonistria linearis Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1904, p. 60. 

 Pseudobacteria longiceps Kby., Ann. Nat. Hist. (6), III, p. 503 ( [S89). 



The collections contain a number of immature Phasmids from 

 Trinidad, while only two fully matured specimens are at hand. A 

 male may be the linearis of Drury. If so, a female taken at the same 

 time may prove to be its female. It is of a very dark gray-brown 



