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the labrum, on the front and between the antennae. Vertex 
pale brown, with a narrow yellow eross in the middle. 
Prothorax shaped about as in annulicornis, but with two 
short tubercles at one fourth from the front border, which is 
fuscous on that spot. There also is a broad brown annulus 
behind the middle and the posterior part is also fuscous. 
Meso- and metathorax black above; the scutella, the 
front border and the humeri yellow. Breast dark brown 
with numerous yellow spots. 
Legs pale yellowish, anterior pair with three pale brown 
fasciae at the coxae and ditto much darker ones at the 
femur. In the other pairs the trochanters, a dark annulus 
near the base of the tibiae, the tip of the tibiae and the 
last tarsal joint pale brown. 
Abdomen black, with the sides of the tergits narrowly 
yellow and the venter yellowish brown. Wings hyaline, 
shaped as in annulicornis but the nervature more open than 
in amabilis. The pterostigma enlarged at the tip, nearly 
triangular, dark brown. Nervature black, except subcosta 
and radius which are yellow. 5 costalveins in the forewings. 
The three radialcells are equal in breadth, the basal one 
the longest, the median one the smallest; 8 discalcells. 
Body 14 mm., forew. 13 mm., hindw. 11 mm. 
Abd. 6 mm. gr. br. 3} mm., gr. br. 3 mm. 
Habitat: Amboina. 
I only examined Gerstaecker’s type, a female from Am- 
boina (Dr. O. Staudinger). 
Mantispa manca papuana, nov. subsp. 
Colour of body yeliowish. Prothorax with darker spots at 
the anterior and at the posterior end. Legs yellow, forelegs 
with the tip of the femora and the base of the tibiae black, in 
the other pairs only the trochanters slightly darker. Abdomen 
yellow, the tergits with deep black, u-shaped lines at the 
hindborders. The male with very short, obtuse, conical app. sup. 
Wings as in manca, but with 7 discalcells in the forewing. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXI. 
