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band by a dark rrrey stripe. Acrostichais biserial in front of suture, 

 but quadriserial and widely spaced behind suture. Scutelhmi 

 darkened. Abdomen more flattened about base than in solitariana ; 

 first segment very extensively darkened, second segment with very 

 large triangular dark patches only narrowly separated on the median 

 line and here occupying the whole length of segment ; third segment 

 with very much smaller, well spparated, triangular dark patches on 

 hind maroin. Lliaetotaxy of legs as in solitariana, but the short 

 pubescence on tibiae (especially hind tibiae) is rather longer and the 

 bristles on hind tibiae finer. Squamae whitish. Halteres yellow. 



$. Very different from the male, the thorax and abdomen bemg 

 o-rey with "light veil o wish-brown tinge and immaculate. Frons with 

 die'interfrontalia very broad and long, occupying the greater part of 

 frontalia. Frontal bristles few in number and short, outside the 

 bristles a few fine tinv hairs. The thorax may show indications of 

 two narrow stripes in front between the acrosticlials and dorso- 

 ceutrals, and the abdomen may bear traces of small faint brownish 

 spots on the first three segments. Ovipositor with a terminal 

 armature of stout npcurved spines. Chaetotaxv of legs as in the 

 male. Wings with a faint yellowish tinge. 



Length 4-5 mm. , 



This species has been found in recent years at widely separatea 

 places round our sea-coast in every month from May to September. 

 Specimens have been examined from Brodie (Elgin), and Nairn, in 

 Scotland; Southwold and Aldeburgh (Suffolk) and Studland 

 {Dorset) in England: and Pyle and Porthcawl (Glamorgan) in 

 Wales; taken by myself, Col. Yerbury, and Mr. Claude Morley. 

 The synonymy is that given by Ringdahl (Ent. Tidskr., 1918, p. 1-59) 

 after an examination of Zetterstedt's types. I also consider it 

 probable that xerta Pand. is another synonym. 

 {To he continued.) 



EREMIAPHILA FRA8ERI, sp. n., A NEW MANTID FEOM MESOPOTAMIA. 

 BY B. P. UTAROT, F.E.S. 

 O Of moderate size for the genus. Head scarcely broader than the 

 pronotum at its fore margin; face smooth; its subantennal part almost flat; 

 with a feeble transverse convexity just below the antennae; supra-antenna 

 transverse impression shallow; ocelli scarcely prominent ; vertex and occiput 

 smooth, but uneven ; lateral sulci very shallow and narrow in the vertex more 

 impressed in the occiput; a pair of low, but rather large, rounded ubercles 

 between the sulci and the eyes, just behind the inner emargination of the latter 

 Pronotum not larger than the breadth of its fore margin, distinctly narrowed 

 posteriorly ; its surface very uneven, but not rugose, with very small scattered 

 granules ;" median line scarcely perceptible in the prozona, but distmc ly raised 

 In the metazona; transverse sulcus rather deeply impressed, its lateral portions 

 almost Teaching the fore margin of the pronotum and connected with each 

 other by a submarginal sulcus, so that the part of the pronotal disc before the 



