TiNDALE — Australian Mantidae 449 



PARHIERODULA DIMORPHA Werner. 



Hierodnla dimorpha Werner, Abh. Senckenb., xxxiii, 1911, p. 394. 

 Hab. NeAV South Wales. 



PARHIERODULA WERNERI Giglio-Tos. 



ParhieroduJa wer^ieri Gigl.-Tos, Bull. Soe. Ent. Ital., 1911, pp. 112, 128; Sjostedt, 

 Ark. f. Zool, xi, 1918, p. 28. 

 Hab. Ke Island (Type), North-West Australia. 



PARHIERODULA ATRICOXIS Wood-Mason. 



Hierodnla (Rhombodera) atricoxis Wood-Mason, Proe. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1878, 



p. 582, pi. xxxvi, fig. 4-4b ; Mantis atricoxis var. (jrandis Wood-Mason, 



Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, li, 1885, p. 31. 



Hah. Queensland. 



This species is described as having the pronotum strongly dilated in middle 

 and the "whole inner surface of the fore coxae coloured jet black, and the hinder 

 part of the prosternum and the mesosternum symmetrically marked Avith the 

 same colour." 



PARHIERODULA MAJUSCULA sp. nov. 

 Plate XX, fig. 50-51. 



9 Allied to P. pnstulifera, but larger. Green, the head wider, vertex less 

 strongly arched, eyes more prominent. Pronotum similar in shape, but con- 

 stricted posteriorly more than in that species. Prosternum green. Wings 

 broad, well rounded ; the elytra opacjue, pale green, with veins darker green ; hind- 

 wings hyaline, the apex pale green. Abdomen yellowish, the cerci coarse and 

 not tapering to apex so gradually as in P. jnistnlifera. Anterior coxae green, 

 inner face with base and apex orange, and the middle broadly jet black, fore- 

 margin with a row of sharp, oblique, coxal teeth ; femora green, with inner face 

 orange-yellow. Legs green. Length of body, 95 mm., pronotum, 30 mm., ex- 

 panse of elytra, 113 mm. 



Hab. North Queensland: Cairns (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 14058. 



No other species of the genus has black and orange front coxae. In P. 

 atricoxis the coxae are said to be entirely black on inner face, but the pronotum 

 is figured as of a widely different shape. The prosternum is without markings. 

 This is probably one of the largest Australian mantids. The females figured are 

 from Cairns, and the specimen showing the reverse is the type. 



