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dilatation with two rough tubercles. Beyond this dilated 
portion it is much constricted, which constriction is fol- 
lowed by another dilatation that has many sulci. There is 
a yellow annulus near the hindborder and two convergent 
yellow lines reaching from the posterior part to somewhat 
before the middle. 
Meso- and metathorax dark fulvous with yellow scutella 
and borders. Breast fulvous, spotted with yellow. 
Abdomen rufous beneath, yellowish above, the fourth and 
fifth tergit with blackish at the hindborder. Pleurae fuscous. 
Legs fulvous. Anterior femora dark fuscous at the interior 
side, the tibiae likewise coloured at the exterior side. The 
median and posterior legs with yellow tibiae and tarsi. 
Pulvillus very broad, nearly quadrangular; claws short, 
with four dents. 
Wings elongate and rather broad, hyaline with black 
nervature. Pterostigma wine-red as also the radius, subcosta, 
the costalfield and the base of the forewing. Costalfield very 
narrow, with 11 veins in the forewing and 14 in the 
hindwing. The cells along the radius are equal in breadth, 
but they are diminishing in length towards the apex. 15 
discalcells in both wings. 
Body 25 mm., forew. 23 mm., hindw. 20 mm. 
~ Abd. 12 mm., gr. br. 5} mm, gr. br. 4; mm. 
Habitat: West Java (H. Fruhstorfer). 
I only saw the type, a Q, of this remarkable species. 
Mantispa simulatrix Mac Lachlan. 
Mantispa simulatriz Mac Lachlan, Ent. monthl. Mag. XXXVI, p. 127 (1900). 
Borneo. 
This species seems to be related to grandis. It is briefly 
characterised as follows: 
Antennae long, 55-jointed, black, at the base rufous. 
Head reddish fulvous, deeply excavated above, with a blunt 
carina. Prothorax comparatively short and stout; anterior 
portion, about one third of its length, very much dilated, 
as broad as the head without the eyes, the anterior margin 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XX XI. 
