122 James A. G. Rehn: On some African Mantidae and Fhasinid£ie 



veins lined with seal brown; apex of wings coriaceous, so]idly 

 blotched with seal brown. Median limbs cinnamon, clouded and 

 lined with the darker shades. 



Measurements. 



Length of body 24,5 mm, 



Length of pronotum 3,5 



Greatest width of pronotum 2,5 



Length of tegmen 24 



Length of cephalic femur 4,5 



Length of median femur 6,1 



The type of this most remarkable genus and species is unique. 



Pseudocreobotra Saussure. 

 Pseudocreobotra ocellata (Beauvois). 



1805. Empusa ocellata Beauvois, Ins. Rec. Afr. Amer., p. 110, 



Orth. pl. XIII, fig. 2. [„Les deserts du royaume d'Ouare".] 



Cameroon. (Conradt.) One female. 



British Uganda. (Grauer.) One male, one female. 



The Uganda specimens show a tendency to approach wahl- 

 hergii in the slightly more ample lateral expansions of the pro- 

 notum. 



The dimensions of the specimens are as foUows: 



Length of Length of «-f;/ Length of L«JJ^|th.f 

 body pronotum ^,^^^^^^ tegmen ^^^^^ 



mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. 



Cameroon. ^ 26 5,5 5,5 28,5 8,5 



British Uganda. ^ 26,2 4,8 5,6 28,5 7,6 



$ 36 6,3 7,2 28,5 10,5 



The Uganda female has the eye-spot washed with pale brick- 

 red and the distal extremity and lobes of the median and caudal 

 femora and clouding in the cephaHc femora purplish-pink. 



Empusinae. 

 Empusa Illiger. 

 Empusa fronticornis (StoU). 



1813. Mantis fronticornis StoU, Natuurf. Afbeeld. Besch. 



Spooken etc., pp. 63, 78, pl. XXI, fig. 79. [No locahty.] 



German South-west Africa. One female. 



This species is undoubtedly an Empusa and StoU's figure has 

 been correctly associated by Burmeister and Saussure. 



Krauss has recorded this species from Okahandya, German 

 Southwest Africa. 



