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hump on the front and middle thirds with a depression between and 

 with two small tubercles on the hind margin; widest about the mid- 

 dle; the front margin truncate; the sides of the front half parallel, 

 those of posterior half a little converging. Tegmina of female broad, 

 covering three-fourths of abdomen; the reticulation dense and irreg- 

 ular; the stigma small, narrow, often indistinct. Those of male nar- 

 rower; surpassing the abdomen, more membranaceous. Wings ample, 

 about as long as tegmina; those of the female forming a quarter of 

 a circle, colored; those of male transparent or a little spotted. Fore 

 limbs rather stout, the tibia.' with five or six large spines on the lower 

 outer border, with numerous small ones intervening; the inner border 

 with twelve or more strong spines. Abdomen depressed, of medium 

 width in the male; large and broad in the female, the border coarsely 

 serrate or lobed. 



One species is known from the southern United States and West 

 Indies. 



14. GoNATiSTA GRiSEA (Fabricius) . The Grizzled Mantis. 

 Mantis (p'iseaFskh., 52, 11, 1793, 22. 

 Gonafista grisea Sauss., 131, 1871, 23; Id., 132, VI, 1872, 231, Plate 



5, Figs. 1, 2; Scudd., 173, XXVIH, 1890, 211, 214; Id., 188, 



1900, 13; Bl., 13, XXVHI, 1896, 265. 

 Mant'iH phryganoides ^QX\., 19 6, 1839, 198. 

 Goriatista cubensis Sauss., 130, HI, 1869, 61. 



Color: Female, grayish, more or less mottled with fuscous. The 

 tegmina with two oblique fuscous crossbars on apical half. Inner 

 wings bluish black. Fore legs gray tinged with greenish and sprinkled 

 with fuscous. The middle and hind legs with narrow fuscous cross- 

 bars. 



Measurements: Female, length of body, 3G mm.; of pronotum, 

 11 mm.; of tegmina, 20 mm. 



A single female of this southern mantid was taken in Vanderburgh 

 County by Mr. S. G. Evans and by him sent to the Agricultural Col- 

 lege of Michigan, from which it came into my possession. Mr. Evans 

 writes that he must have supposed it to be a short bodied form of 

 Stagmomantis Carolina and has no recollection of the exact date, or 

 the place in the county in which it was found. It may possibly, 

 therefore, have been introduced on tropical fruits. It is common 

 in Cuba and San Domingo and has been taken in Georgia and at Key 

 West and Fernandina, Florida. 



