TiNDALE — Australian Mantidae 441 



"Wings longer than pronotmn; elytra opaque, brown, with well developed ante- 

 median and median black spots, reticulations black, fore-margin at base beneath 

 black, and reticulations along margin black, rest of elytra rich brown; hind- 

 wings hyaline, with fore-margin In-own. Abdomen light brown, cerci long, 

 flattened, broad, the last segment ro\uid. Tlie anterior coxae with five rather 

 small spines on fore-margin. Legs brown. Length of body, 95 mm., of pro- 

 notum, 34 mm., of expanded elytra, 76 mm. Murray River (H. S. Cope, Type 

 female, T. 14066). 



Hah. Queensland, Northern Territory, Central Australia, and South 

 Australia. 



The males have a broader pronotum than A. latistyla, and are generally 

 green when alive. The females in our long series are all brown. 



ARCHIMANTIS QUINQUELOBATA Tepper. 



Plate xvii, fig. 35-37. 



Fischeria qiiinquelohata Tepper, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., 1905, p. 238; Rheomantis 

 quinquelohata Giglio-Tos, Bull. Soc, Ent. Ital., 1916, p. 44. 

 S Smaller than female. Pronotum more slender, anterior margin with 

 only very fine serration. Wings long, complete, the elytra with anterior half 

 opaque, brown, with two black spots at one-third, the posterior portion hyaline; 

 hind wings hyaline, brownish on anterior margin and apex. Anterior coxae 

 armed with four (sometimes five) triangular teeth. Length of body, 77 mm., 

 of elytra, 86 mm. Mount Painter (H. G. Stokes, Type male, I. 14067). 

 Hab. South Australia, Central Australia. 



The specimen described as a male by Tepper is really a small female. The 

 sexes are very different. The male figure is from Mount Painter, the female (a 

 cotype) from the Fraser Range, where the native name is said to be "kamuan." 

 Giglio-Tos (2) has proposed a genus Rheomantis for. this species, which, however, 

 appears to be a typical Archimantis. 



ARCHIMANTIS ARMATA Wood-Mason. 



Plate xvi, fig. 33. 



Archimantis arniata Wood-Mason, Ann. Nat. Hist. (4), xx, 1877, p. 76; Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 584, pi. xxxvi, fig. 2-2a. 



$ As large as female, brown. Head smaller, antennae very long and stout 

 at base. Pronotum as long as in female, very slender, somewhat dilated near 

 anterior extremity, posteriorly to dilatation very slender and constricted nearly 

 to- posterior margin, margins entirely plain, surface of pronotum smooth. 



(^)Giglio-Tos, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., 1916, p. 44. 



