94 MECOPTERA AND PLANIPENNIA 
Habitat: West Java. 
I examined a specimen from West Java, collected by 
Mr. M. C. Piepers, and a series from Moeara Angke near 
Batavia, collected in April 1908 by Edw. Jacobson. 
The latter informs us that it was very common in the 
swampy region at some hundreds of meters from the coast. 
They were sitting on the grass and very easily captured 
with the hand. Their flight was very painful and they only 
flew about one half meter. 
Of a number of specimens, brought home alive in a box, 
a foreleg was teared off in mutual fights. 
Probably this form must be separated from the original 
form, which is described from North India, but 1 have 
no specimens from the continent for comparison and 
Westwood’s description and drawing show no differences. 
I saw a small male-specimen from Luzon (Ziirich Museum) 
in which the apical and marginal brown streak of the 
wings are broadly connected and that belongs to a new 
subspecies (luzonica). 
Mantispa strenua Gerstaecker. 
(Plate 5, fig. 41). 
Mantispa strenua Gerstaecker, Mitt. naturw. Ver. Neu-Vorpomm. und Rügen, 
XXV, p. 150 (1893). West Java. 
This species remembers guadrituberculata by the sulcated 
prothorax, by the antennae and by the coloration of the 
body, but it belongs to another group, -as the hyaline wings 
are much more densely reticulated and the costalfield is 
much longer, containing more than 10 veins. Its size is 
more than twice larger. 
Antennae short and thick, the 3 apical and the 2 basal 
joints yellow. Head broad, yellow, foreborder of the labrum, 
a transverse stripe on the clypeus, another between the 
antennae and a fourth on the vertex, deep black. Prothorax 
dark falvous. Anterior part much dilated, then a strong 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XX XI. 
