450 Records of the S.A. Museum 



PSEUDOMANTIS Saussure, 1869 (albofimbriata). 

 Hah. Australia. 



PSEUDOMANTIS ALBOFIMBRIATA Stal. 

 Plate xiv, fig. 23-24. 

 Mantis albofiynbriaia Stal, Eugenie's Resa. Ins., 1858, p. 812; Psnido mantis 

 alhofimhriata Sauss., Mem. Soe. Geneve, xxi, 1871, p. 84, pi. iv, fig. 7 ; Cliglif)- 

 Tos, Bull. Soe. Ent. Ital., 11)11, j). .17. 



$ Smaller than female, green. Head as in female, eyes more prominent, 

 antennae longer, oeelli prominent. Pronotnm similar, without marginal serra- 

 tions. Wings, long, greenish, hyaline, with fore-margins opaque. Anterior 

 femora weaker, with a large hlaek spot on inner face. Length of l)ody, 36 mm., 

 of pronotnm, 11 mm., of elytra, 28 mm. 



Hah. Tasmania (Type), Xew South Wales. 



The figures show a female from Sydney and tlic inner faee of a male anterior 

 leg. Both sexes have a black spot on the inner face of the front femora. 



PSEUDOMANTIS VICTORINA Westwood. 



Pseudomantis victorimi Westw., Rev. Mant., 1889, p. 86, pi. ix, fig. 6. 

 Hal). North Australia. 



PSEUDOMANTIS HARTMEYERI Werner. 



Pesudomantis hartincycri Werner, Fauna Sudw. Austral., iv, 1911, p. 51. 

 Hah. Western Australia. 

 This species, which was described from larvae, is nnknown to me. 



STATILIA Stal, 1877 (nemoralis). 



Hah. Malay Archipelago. 



S. apicalis is known from Australia, Xew Guinea, and Africa, a strange case 

 of discontinuous distribution. 



STATILIA APICALIS Saussure. 



Mantis apicalis Sauss., Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxi, 1871, p. 291 ; I.e., xxiii, 1872, p. 

 48; Statilia apicalis Stal, Bih. Svenska Akad., iv, 1877, p. 55; Gigl.-Tos, 

 Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., 1911, p. 9; Pseudomantis apicalis Kirby, Syn. Cat. 

 Orth, 1904, p. 235. 

 Hah. New South Wales, Queensland. 



MANTIS Linnaeus, 1758 (religiosa). 

 Hah. Europe, Asia, Africa, and one species from Australia. 



