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versely excavated, straight. Antennae fine, ocelli small (female). Pronotum 

 six times longer than wide, fore-margin rounded, a slight constriction, then a 

 slight dilatation before one-third, thence sides parallel to posterior angle, which is 

 a trifle dilated, margins delicately serrate, surface of pronotum smooth. Wings 

 transparent, as long as abdomen. Abdomen moderately slender, parallel-sided, 

 eerei broad, flat, with eleven apparent joints, hairy, apical joint triangular. 

 Anterior coxae long, flattened, thin, margins weakly spined ; femora long, armed 

 with four discoidal spines, the second small, third large, inner margin with fifteen 

 spines, outer margin with four, tibia with 14-15 inner and 10-11 outer marginal 

 graduated spines; first joint of the tarsi longer than four following together. 



Type, NuIIahora flavoguttata, from the Nullabor Plains. 



In this genus the female is fully winged. The male is unknown. 



NULLABORA FLAVOGUTTATA sp. nov. 



Plate xviii, fig. 41, and text figure 376. 



9 Yellowish-green with purplish-brown markings (in dried specimen). 



Head with frons depressed, whitish. Pronotum smooth, greenish, with a sub- 

 marginal border of purplish-brown, in- 

 terrupted at the supracoxal dilatation. 

 Prosternum with broad longitudinal 

 band, black. Wings transparent, fore- 

 margin of elytra green, with a dark sub- 

 marginal line. Abdomen greenish, above 

 with a dark central line of purplish- 

 brown, beneath, at the base of segments 

 2 to 5, a large median orange spot sur- 

 rounded by a triangular area of purplish-brown; cerci lirownish-black, hairy. 



Legs greenish, inner face of anterior coxae pale purple. Length, 66 mm., 



pronotum, 23 mm., Avings, 40 mm. 



Hah. South Australia: Kingoonya (R. Harvey, Type, I. 14070) ; Northern 



Territory (Capt. S. A. White). 



This peculiar mantis from the desert plains of the north-west of South 



Australia is probably a grass-frequenting species. It is not apparently close to 



any other species. 



Fja-. 376. 



NuIIahora flavoguttata si), nov. 

 Head of female. 



RHODOMANTIS Giglio-Tos, 1916 (pulchellus). 



RhodomanUs C4iglio-Tos, Bull. Soc. But. Ital., 1916, p. 45. 

 Truxommitis Sjostedt, Ark. f. Zool., xi, 1918, p. 31. 



