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Patalung at the end of March, and not yet completely passed at 
Aring in the middle of September; but possibly the flowering- 
season do-s not exactly coincide in the two districts. 1 know of 
no other flower at all like it in the jungle of lower Siam. A rarer 
species of the same genus, very similar in general appearance, is 
found in the clearings. 
Halits and Attitude.—The only specimen which I obtained was 
caught about midday on August 17th in a_ buffalo-lawn near 
Kampong Aring, a village in the Ulu Lebeh district of Kelantan— 
that is to sav, almost at “the centre of the broad part of the Malay 
Peninsula. I was attracted toa bush of the ‘Straits Rhododendron” 
(Melastoma polyanthum) by a curious movement among the flowers 
of a large inflorescence at the height of about five feet above the 
ground. On a cursory examination I could only see that one of 
the flowers—so it appeared—w as swaying slow ly from side to side; 
and it was not for several seconds that I Tealized that the moving 
Fig. 2. 
Pupa of Hymenopus bicornis on inflorescence of Melastoma palyanthum. 
(Photographed from life.) 
The same specimen as in figure 1, viewed from above, showing the dotted 
lines on the dorsal surface of the abdomen and the bruise-like markings on the 
expansions of the femora of the 3rd pair of legs. The head and fore limbs are 
slightly out of focus, and part of the bar on the thorax appears behind them. 
This photograph shows the difference in shape between the expansions on the 
legs of the Mantis and the petals of the flower, 
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