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



regularly* biseriate spines; cephalic tibiae (without the claw) 

 about half the length of the femora, armed externally with seven. 

 to eight spines and having a considerable unarmed proximal 

 Space, internal margin with thirteen spines regularly increasing 

 in size distad; cephalic metatarsi elongate, equal to three-fourths. 



the tibial (exe. 4 claw) length. Median 



and caudal limbs with the femora ^ ' > 



appreciably iriflated in the proximal ^-^Wt^^'^W^^^^*'^ 

 two-thirds. -^^PpK*?«*^ 



Greneral color apple green, be- ^ 



1 -1 i 1 i • Sphodromantls ugandanus n. sp. 



commg nearly oil green on the tegmina pattem of intemai face of cephalic 

 and, probably by discoloration, wax ^^'""'^- ' ^ 3) 



yellow on the prothorax and median coxae. Head washed with 

 russet ; eyes seal brown. Tegmina with the disto-sutural section very 

 f aintly washed with vinaceous-pink ; stigma dull cream color, flan- 

 ked distad and proximad by small spots of seal brown. Wings dull 

 naples yellow, apexsulcoriaceous, apple green, proximal half of costal 

 section with three short transverse moderately distinct macula- 

 tions of carinine, distal half of coxtal section subcoriaceous, 

 gamboge yellow. Cephalic limbs of the general color; coxal spines 

 lemon yellow; femora with a large ovate shining blachish macula- 

 tion proximad of the middle and, on the ventral half in whing 

 the unguinal grosse, distad of this maculation the ventral portion 

 is lemon yellow with three to four oblique seal brown lines 

 proximad, these lines involving major spines, the distal major 

 spines of the same color, minor and all other spines tipped with 

 seal brown. Abdomen clore brown (probably due to discoloration). 

 Measurements. 



Length of body 51 mm. 



Length of pronotum 14,5 „ 



Greatest width of pronotum 6 ,, 



Length of tegmen 35,5 „ 



Width of costal field of tegmen .... 3,2 „ 



Length of cephaüc femur 13,2 „ 



Length of median femur 12,5 ,, 



Length of caudal femur 15,8 „ 



The type is unique. 



Sphodromantls lineola (Burmeister). 



1838. M[antis (Stagmatoptera)] lineola Burmeister, Handb. 

 d. Entom., II, Abt. 11, pt. 1, p. 537. [Sierra Leone.] 

 East Africa. One female. 



Sphodromantls centralis Rehn. 



In press in Ergebnisse der Deutschen Cent. Afr. Expedition. 

 1907-8, Zoologie. 



*) There is, but one exception to the regularity of the alternation of larg» 

 and small spines on this margin in the type, this being the presence of an extra, 

 small spine on the right femur. 



