440 Records of the S.A. Museum 



ARCHIMANTIS LATISTYLA Serville. 



Plate xvi, fig. 32 ; xix, fig. 47. 



Mantis hitistijlus Serv., Ins. Orth., 1839, p.' 179 ; McCoy, Prod. Zool. Viet., xiii, 

 1886, pi. cxxx; Archiniantis laiystilus Sauss., Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxi, 1871, 

 p. 39. 

 Hab. South Australia and Western Australia. 



ARCHIMANTIS SOBRINA Saussure. 



Plate xvi, fig. 31. 



S Smaller than female. Pale green in life. Head smaller, ocelli pro- 

 minent, antennae long. Pronotum long and broad, shape of female. Wings 

 long, hyaline, immaculate, a greenish tinge on fore-margins. The elytra beneath 

 have at base an anterior marginal black patch, and the reticulation on rest of 

 margin is black. Cerci flat, narrower than in female, the apical joint very long 

 and blunt pointed. Length of body, 90 mm., of elytra, 110 mm. 



II (ih. Western Australia, South Australia, Western Queensland, Northern 

 Territory. 



The female figured is from Cunnamulla, and is 99 mm. in length. This is a 

 large, stout species, and seems to be most common in the interior. Males are very 

 similar to those of A. Ijrunneriana, but the front femora are much narrower aud 

 the pronotum longer. 



ARCHIMANTIS MINOR Giglio-Tos. 



Plate xviii, fig. 39. 



Archimantis minor Giglio-Tos, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., 1916, p. 43. 



Hob. Western Australia. 



This is a rather small species, of which we havf four females from Beverley 

 The pronotum is very similar to A. sobrina, but the wings are short, brown, and 

 with a black discoidal spot. 



ARCHIMANTIS BRUNNERIANA Saussure. 



Plate xviii, fig. 40. 



Archiinanfis brunneriana Sauss., Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxi, 1871, p. 277; I.e., 1873, 

 pi. viii, fig. 4. 



9 Larger than male. Brown, with darker markings. Head larger, eyes 

 more depressed, divergent, ocelli very small, widely separated, antennae short. 

 Pronotum like male, but broader, and with anterior margins more serrated. 



