TiNDALE — Australian Mantidae 451 



MANTIS OCTOSPILOTA Westwood. 



Plate xxii, fig. 58. 

 Mantis octospilota Westw., Rev. Mant., 1889, p. 35 ; Giglio-Tos, Bull. Soc. Ent. 



Ital., 1911, p. 15. 



Hah. North-west Australia, "Western Australia, North-west of South Aus- 

 tralia, Queensland, Northern Territory. 



The male is figured. Tli(> female is larger than the male, and has the wings 

 more opaque. Both sexes have a blaek spot at the base of inner face of fore- 

 coxae, and the prosternum is also suffused blaek. It was first described from 

 Adelaide. Specimens from Roper River have the black spots widened into short 

 lateral black bars. 



AUSTROMANTIS Sjdstedfc, 1918 (albomarginata). 

 Hah. Australia. 



AUSTROMANTIS ALBOMARGINATA Sjiistedt. 



Austromantis alboDiarginata Sjost., Ark. f. ZooL, xi, 1918, p. 28, pi. iii, fig. 1-2. 

 Hah. North-west Australia, Northern Territory, Groote Eylandt. 



AUSTROMANTIS GRACILIS Sjostedt. 



Austromantis gracilis Sjost., Ark. f. ZooL, xi, 1918, p. 30, pi. iv, fig. 1. 

 Hah. Western Australia, North-west Australia, Groote Eylandt. 



NOTOMANTIS gen. nov. 



Allied to Mantis. Head with vertex .straight, eyes prominent, divergent, 

 facial shield strongly transverse. Pronotum with sides depressed, the anterior 

 portion constricted and forming a median ridge. Wings (in the male) rather 

 long, hyaline, the fore-margin of elytra rounded, with traces of a stigma. 

 Abdomen short, the cerci small. Anterior coxae armed with small teeth; the 

 femora rather strong, armed with four short discoidal spines, an inner marginal 

 series of fourteen irregular small spines, and an outer marginal series of four 

 larger spines; tibiae armed externall}' with eight, internally with eleven gradu- 

 ated spines. Legs long and slender. 



Type, N. chlorophana sp. nov. 



NOTOMANTIS CHLOROPHANA sp. nov. 



Plate xxii, fig. 57. 



S Green. Head green, antennae long, stout, black, except at base. Pro- 

 notum green, smooth, the margins darker. Wings green, hyaline, the fore- 

 margins opaque, the apex tipped black ; the fore-margin of elytra beneath black. 

 Anterior legs green, the apex of coxae and an obscure patch on inner face of 



