238 J. Wood-Mason—Synopsis of the Species of Cheeradodis. [No. 3, 
XI.— Revised Synopsis of the Species of Choeradodis, a remarkable Genus 
of Mantodea common to India and Tropical America.—By J. Woov- 
Mason, Officiating Superintendent of the Indian Musewm, and Pro- 
fessor of Comparative Anatomy in the Medical College, Calcutta. 
(With 15 Woodcuts.) 
Since the former version of this Synopsis was published, some 
additional material has fallen into my hands, by the aid of which I have 
been enabled to establish the existence of two distinct Indian species, 
and to identify with certainty a larva which I had previously assigned 
with hesitation to Ch. rhombicollis. 
Two Indian species have been described, one by Fabricius under 
the name of Mantis cancellata, and the other by De Saussure as Ch. 
squilla from a perfect male insect and a larva. The recent discovery of 
the true female of the latter proves that the insects I had previously 
considered to be females and abnormal males of it represent a different 
species, to which I have the less hesitation in applying the Fabrician 
name that Prof. Westwood has named a female from Saugor in the 
Oxford Museum Ch. cancellata. 
De Saussure has described and figured one of the remarkable larvee 
of the genus—that of his Oh. squilia—, and pointed out the close resem- 
blance it bears to that of an American species; De Borre has recently 
figured a larva of Ch. rhombicollis which is nearly intermediate in age 
between my figures 3 and 4; a larva of Ch. rhomboidea is preserved in 
the British Museum ; and I give figures of the larvee of three additional 
species and also of an earlier stage of Ch. squilla; so that, counting the 
larva of Oh. strumaria figured by Mérian, larve of no less than 7 out of 
the 9 species recognized by me are now known. 
Fig. 1. si¥i ve Wig, 2. Fig. 3. Fig. 4. 
Cheradodis cancellata:’ Ch. brunnert. Ch. servillet. Ch. squilla. 
Q nymph, ° d nymph. d nymph. @ nymph. 
The close similarity of these larve to one another furnishes a 
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remarkable confirmation of the view that the adults are congeneric. 
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