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genital plate broadly rounded, with a central depression and a 

 posterior median emargination. 



General color between gamboge yellow and lemon yellow,'* 

 strongest on the head, pronotum, limbs and tegminal rings. Head 

 with the superior aspect clouded with greenish ; eyes walnut brown 

 clouded with blackish, palest inferiorly. Pronotum with the pos- 

 terior half deeply suffused with dull greenish. Tegmina basally 

 pale pea-green with a blotch of chromium green,'' the characteristic 

 rings surrounded by the latter tint, the rings arranged as follows: 

 a central black spot, a moderately broad ring of chromium greeu 

 followed by a bar of slightly greater width of modified lemon 

 yellow, and externally a narrow black ring. Limbs all ringed 

 with narrow bands of dull emerald green; the lower surface of 

 each of the anterior femora with two spots of orange. 



3feasurements. 



Total length, 33. mm. 



Width of head, 6 



Length of pronotum, 6.75 " 



Greatest width of pronotnm, 9 " 



Length of elytra, 32.5 " 



Greatest width of elytra, 7.5 " 



Length of anterior femora, 10.5 " 



Length of posterior femora, 8. 25 " 



Pseudoharpax virescens (Serville). 



1839. Creobroier virescens Serville, Orthoptores, p. 162, PI. 3, fig. 7. 



Four specimens, one male, three immature females; Sheikh 

 Husein, Gallaland, September 28 and 30, October 9 and 10, 

 1894. 



The male has a broad dorsal median stripe of black on the pro- 

 notum. 

 Popa undata (Fabricius). 



1793. Mantis xindata Fabricius, Eut. Syst., II, p. 19. 



Three specimens, two males (one immature, one larval), one 

 female; Sheikh Husein, Gallaland, and near Tug Lomo, between 

 Milmil and Bodele, Somaliland,"^ August 12, September 30 and 

 October 10, 1894. 



The males have the supraanal plate apically truncate, while that 

 portion of the female is much more acuminate. 



^*. ^^ Ridgway's Nomenclature. 



^^ The data with this specimen reads "Smith River, VIII 12, 94." Smith 

 River cannot be found on any of Dr. Smiths charts, and the locality above 

 s that of the datfe. 



