112 James A. G. Rehn: On some African Mantidae and Phasmidae 



Mantinae. 



Hapalomantis Stal. 

 Hapalomantis rhombocMr (Werner). 



1908. Eutella rhomhochir Werner, Bericht Senckenb. Naturf. 



Gesell., 1908, p. 48, taf. III, fig. 6. [No locality.] 



Cameroon. (Conradt.) One male, one female. 



This species, which was wrongly associated, very poorly figured 

 and insufficiently described without measurements or locaHty, 

 is closely related to H. meridionalis Saussure, differing in the 

 distinetly smaller ocelli, more robust pronotum, proportionately 

 shorter tegmina, much more robust cephalic femora, more arcuate 

 dorsal lamellate expansion of same and in the different tibial 

 spine formulae. The peculiar development of the lateral proximal 

 tibial spines, which this species shares with meridionalis, are not 

 shown in the figure given by Werner, although mentioned in the 

 description. The lateral femoral spines number five in both 

 specimens, the internal thirteen in both, the lateral tibial spines 

 seven to eight, the internal tibial spines six to seven. 



Dystacta Saussure. 

 Dystacta alticeps (Schaum). 



1853. Mantis alticeps Schaum, Ber. Verh. K. Preuß. Akad. 



Wissensch. Berlin, 1853, p. 777. [Mozambique.] 



Benguella, Angola. One female. 



This specimen has the pronotum with a pair of blackish 

 half-moons bordering the margins of the pronotum caudad of the 

 greatest width. 



The ränge of this species extends from the Cape region north 

 to Mozambique and the locality here given, the latter being the 

 most northerly record of the species in western Africa. Other 

 records show its occurrence in Zambesia, Damaraland, Nyassa- 

 land, Transvaal, Orange River Colony and at Delagoa Bay. 



Stenopyga Karsch. 

 Stenopyga extera Karsch. 



1892. Stenopyga extera Karsch, Entom. Nachrichten, XVIII, 

 p. 146. [Barombi Station on Elephant Lake, Cameroon.] 

 Cameroon. (Conradt.) One male. 



Paratenodera Rehn. 

 Paratenodera capitata (Saussure). 



1869. T[enodera] capitata Saussure, Mitth. Schw. Ent. Gesell., 



III, p. 69. [Locality ?] 



British Uganda. (Grauer.) One female. 



This specimen agrees very weU with the original description 

 and also Sjöstedt's excellent description of this species*). The 



*) Bihang tiU K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. XXV, afd. IV, No. 6, p. 11—12- 



