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? Ploiariodes, Buck. White, A. M. N. II. (o) vii, p. 58(1881); Chtmp. 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Rhijnch. ii, p. 160 (1898). 



Type, P. vagahunda, Liuu., a European species. 



Distyilmtion. Nearctic, Paltearctie, and Oriental Regions. 



Elongate, with very long antenna? and legs ; head rounded and 

 subglobose behind eyes, ocelli absent, vertex with a strong trans- 

 verse impression ; antenniferous tubercles strongly developed and 

 prominent ; antennae very loug, first and second joints subequal 

 in length, third and fourth together about half as long as second; 

 rostrum scarcely longer than bead; pronotum widened posteriorly, 

 the lateral margins nearly straight and carinate ; scutellum with 

 two spines, one at base, the other at apex, below the last is another, 

 which according to Saunders is on the basal segment of the 

 abdomen, and Puton says it is " sur le scutum du metathorax "" ; 

 hemelytra submembranous, raeuibrane large, apical angle of corium 

 long, acute ; legs long, slender ; coxae elongate, those of the 

 anterior legs produced beyond the apex of the head ; anterior 

 femora moderately incrassate. 



Fig. 141. — Ploiariola culata. 



l)!J9. Ploiariola ociilata, 



Rent. (Ploearia) Act. 

 iSoc, Sc. Feun. xii, 

 p. .338 (1881). 



Head, anterior lobe of 

 pronotum, abdomen beneath 

 and connexivum fuscous ; 

 abdomen above and scutel- 

 lum ochraceous ; posterior 

 lobe of pronotum pale 

 lut(^ous ; rostrum, anteuntt) 

 and legs very pale luteous, 

 with numerous fuscous an- 

 nulations. 



Length 5i millim. 



Hah. Ceylon (Nietuer) ; 

 Peradeniya (Green). 



Mr. Gr. Green informs me 

 that this species captures 

 its in'ey in the same man- 

 ner as the Mantis does ; 

 when not on the move it 

 slowly raises and depresses 

 its body, its long legs 

 seeming to act like springs. 

 Its food consists of minute 

 insects, ^Ir. Green kept 

 specimens iu confinement, 



and found that they were able to catch insects of the size of gnats, etc. 



