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PLATE LXII. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF SOOTHSAYERS. 
(MANTID&.) 
ae 
PHYLLOCRANIA INSIGNIS, Westw. (Plate 62, fig. 1.) 
P. luteo-fusca, tegminibus olivaceo-fuscis, basi, vittaque obliqua media albidis, alarum angulo 
apicali producto, hoc areaque anali fuscis reliqua parte alarum fulvescente fusco irrorata, 
foliolis protheracis et pedum posticorum albido et olivaceo variis. 
Long. corp. (cornu capitis incluso) unc. 23, 
Habitat in Sierra Leone. In Mus. Britt. et D. Hope. 
This insect appears to be specifically distinct from Ph. paradoxa, 
of Burmeister*; it agrees, however, with it in its remarkable 
structural peculiarities, namely, the singular, elongated, narrow, 
leaf-like appendage of the head, the dilated sides of the prothorax, 
and the leaflets of the four hind femora and tibiz. Mantis Diana, 
of Stoll (fig. 100), and the Empusz, agree with Phyllocrania in the 
produced head, but the latter have pectinated antennze in the males, 
whereas all the specimens of the species above described, which I 
have hitherto seen (one belonging to the Rev. F. W. Hope, and 
two discoloured ones in the British Museum collection), possess very 
slender, simple antenne. Of these specimens two agree in having 
a shorter appendage to the head, one of which is represented in my 
plate, whereas the other has the head produced into a much longer, 
slenderer, and more curved horn (fig. 1 a). This last, I apprehend, 
is the male, and the other two females. In all other external 
characters, however, they agree together. Mantis (Blepharis). 
Kuhlii of De Haan (Bijdragen, &c., plate 18, fig. 3), seems in 
general form, dilated abdomen, and foliated hind femora, to 
approach nearer to Phyllocrania than to Blepharis mendica. 
MANTIS METALLICA, Westw. (Plate 62, fig. 3.) 
M. chalybea, nitida, capitis plaga verticali, et pronoto antice et postice flavis, tegminibus fulvis 
venis viridibus, alis ad angulum analem late fuscis. 
Long. corp. lin. 14. Expans. tegmin. une. 2. 
Inhabits Sylhet in the East Indies. In the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
With the exception of Metallyticus splendidust, and the present 
species, I am not acquainted with any metallic Mantideous insect. 
The body and legs are of a bright steel blue, except the middle of 
the dise of the head, a rounded patch near,the fore-margin of the 
pronotum, and a larger posterior spot, which are of a rich yellow 
* Ph. fulvo-viridis, elytris macula basali rhombea, vittaque obliqua post medium pallide testa- 
ceis, roseo-micantibus ; alis fusco tesselatis. Long. corp. 13”. Habitat apud Cap. Bon. Spei. 
Handb. d. Ent. Orthoptera, p. 549. 
+ Westwood, in Zoolog. Journ., vol. v., p. 442, pl. 22, fig. 1. also figured a brilliant 
and rare variety of the same insect in the British Cyclopedia of Natural Hist., Orthopterous 
Insects, fig. med. dext. 
Syn.-—Mantis chalybea, Serville, H. n. Orth., p. 202. 
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