in the CoUection of the Deutschen Entomologischen Museum. 115 



Sphodromantis Stal. 

 Sphodromantis ugandanus n. sp. 



Type: ?; British Uganda. (Grauer.) [German Entomological 



Museum.] 



Close to S. occidentalis Werner*), but differing as few as can 

 be determined from opposite sexes, in the absence of infuscation 

 on the median and caudal femora, the distribution of yellow and 

 black on the internal face of the cephalic femora and in the tinted 

 wings. The original description of Werner's species contains little 

 Information on structural characters which might be used for 

 comparison. It seems quite probable that this species and possibly 

 occidentalis may belong in Bolivar's recently erected Prohiero- 

 dula.**) 



Size small (for the genus); form moderately robust. Head 

 subtrigonal in shape, occiput decidedly arcuate transversely ; 

 ocelli moderately large, placed in a triangle, the dorsal ones more 

 separated from each other than they are from the ventral one; 

 facial shield transverse, the greatest depth contained one and 

 and two-thirds times in the greatest width, dorsal margin arcuate; 

 eyes moderately prominent, rounded. Pronotum moderately 

 robust, the greatest width contained two and one-third times in 

 the greatest length; supra-coxal expansion decided, well arcuate, 

 the coUar regularly converging from the expansion to the well 

 rounded cephalic margin; shaft regularly narrowing from the ex- 

 pansion to near the middle of shaft, from which point the shaft 

 is slightly and gradually broadened caudad; caudal margin sub- 

 truncate mesad and strongly arcuate laterad, lateral margins 

 serrato-dentate, the teeth on the shaft less prominent than those 

 on the Inflation; medio-longitudinal carina on shaft decided, 

 represented on coUar by a deeply impressed sulcus. Tegmina 

 slightly exceeding the apex of the abdomen, sub-lanceolate, the 

 greatest width contained about three and a third times in the 

 length of the same; costal margin moderately arcuate proximad 

 and distad, the portion between, and by far the greater section, 

 straight ; costal field broad, slightly less than half the width of the 

 remainder of the tegmen; apex rather narrowly rounded; stigma 

 elliptical. Wings very slightly surpassing the apex of the tegmina. 

 Cephalic limbs moderately robust; coxae equal to slightly more 

 than two-thirds the pronotal lengtb, cephalic margin with five 

 to six dentiform tubercles, caudal surface irregularly serrato- 

 spinose; cephahc femora but slightly shorter than the pronotum, 

 rather slender, dorsal margin nearly straight, ventral margin 

 moderately arcuate, discoidal spines four in number, external 

 margin with four spines, internal margin with fourteen to fifteen 



*) Jahresb. Ver. Vaterl. Naturk. Württemb., LXII, p. 366, 1906 [German 

 •South West Africa]. 



**) Mem. Real Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., I, no. 26, p. 461. 



8* 6. Heft 



