448 Records of the S.A. Museum 



PARHIERODULA Giglio-Tos, 1911 (venosa). 

 Hab. Australasia, extending as far west as Wallace's line. 



PARHIERODULA PUSTULIFERA Wood-Mason. 



Plate xviii, fig. 45; xxi, fig. 52. 



Rhomhodera pudnlifera Wood-Mason, Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 583, pi. 



xxxvi, fig. 6, 6a; Parhierodula pustulifera Giglio-Tos, Bull. Soe. Ent. Ital., 



1911, p. 124. 



$ Smaller than female, green. Head and pronotum similar, antennae 

 somewhat longer, the margins of pronotum plain. Wings longer, hyaline, the 

 elytra much narrowed, with fore-margin less dilated and opaque. Anterior legs 

 orange-coloured on inner face, coxal spines blunt, small, and somewhat widely 

 separated. Length of bod}', 59 nnn., pronotum, 18 mm., elytra, 41 mm. Darwin 

 (W. K. Hunt). Type, male, I. 14062. 



Hah. Queensland (Torres Strait Islands, type), Northern Territory, Groote. 

 Eylandt, Bourn, Obi, and Ke. 



The female illustrated was taken on Groote Eylandt. It measures 74 mm. 

 in length. 



PARHIERODULA STERNOSTICTA Wood-Mason. 



Hierodula sternosticta Wood-Mason, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng., li. 1882, p. 31 

 Parhierodula sternosticta Gigl.-Tos, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., 1911, p. 114 

 Hierodula hiroi Brancsik, Ser. Orth. nov., 1897, p. 61, pi. i, fig. 7a-b 

 Hierodula punctipectus Brunner, Orth. Mai. Arch., 1898, p. 212, pi. xvi, 

 fig. 18. 

 Hah. Australia: Trinity Bay (W^ood-Mason), New Guinea. 



PARHIERODULA QUINQUEDENS Macleay. 

 Plate xxi, fig. 53. 



Mantis quinquedens Mael., King's Survey Aust., ii, 1827, p. 454; Hierodula 

 quinquedens Saussure, Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxi, 1871, p. 78 ; xxiii, 1873, 

 p. 42, pi. viii, fig. 8, 8a ; Wood-Mason, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, li, 1882, 

 p. 28; Sphodropoda quinquedens Kirby, Cat. Mant., 1904, p. 242. 

 Hah. Queensland, Northern Territory, Groote Eylandt. 

 A Groote Eylandt female is figured. This species is somewhat aberrant, and 



shows relationship with Sphodropoda, but is best retained in the above genus. 



