434 Records of the S.A. Museum 



Hah. South Australia: Parachilna (Natural History Expedition), Tar- 

 coola, Barton (A. M. Lea), Farina, Ooldea, Todmorton (Captain S. A. White); 

 Central Australia: Carraweena, Trinity (Museum Exped., 1916), Macdonnell 

 and Everard Ranges (Captain S. A. White). Type male, I. 14043; type female, 

 I. 14045. 



This species, the males of which we have a long series, appears to be common 

 in the dry parts of the interior of South Australia. The type male is from 

 Parachilna, in the Flinders Range. The female is described from a single 

 specimen, apterous, but apparently mature, taken by Mr. A. M. Lea at Barton, 

 while beating shrubs. The males frequently come to lights. 



COMPSOTHESPIS Saussure, 1872 (anomala). 



Hah. Africa, with one species recorded from Australia. 



COMPSOTHESPIS AUSTRALIENSIS Wood-Mason. 



Conipsothespis australiensis W^ood-Mason, Cat. Mant., 1889, p. 7, fig. 4; Westw., 

 Rev. Mant., 1889, p. 32, pi. xii, fig. 11. 

 Hah. Queensland and "North Australia." 



Sub-Family Ekemiaphilinae. 



This subfamily is represented in Australia l)y the genus Orthodera. The 

 species are so extremely variable that it is difficult to find satisfactory characters 

 on which to separate them. • 



ORTHODERA Burmeister, 1838 (ministralis). 

 Hah. This genus is confined to Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand. 



ORTHODERA MINISTRALIS Fab. 



Plate xiv, fig. 18-20, and text figure 375. 



Ma7itis ministralis Fab., Syst. Ent., 1775, p. 277 ; Paraoxypilus ? ministralis 

 Sauss., Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxi, 1871, p. 158 ; Orthodera ministralis Wood- 

 Mason, Cat. Mant., 1889, p. 20; Orthodera prasina Burmeister, Handb. Ent., 

 ii, 1838, p. 529 ; Sauss., Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxi, 1871, p. 15 ; Tepper, Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. S.A., xxix, 1905, p. 238; Mantis ruhrocoxata Serville, Hist. Nat. 

 Orth., 1839, p. 203; Mantis hohsonii Le Guillou, Rev. Zool., 1841, p. 293; 

 Bolidena hohsonii Blanchard, Voy. au Pole Sud, iv, 1853, pi. i, fig. 7 ; 

 Mantis gunnii Le Guill., I.e., p. 293; Orthodera laticollis Brancsik, Jahresh. 

 Nat. Ver. Trencseu. Kom., 1896, p. 246, pi. vii, fig. 5a; Orthodera aitstraliana 



