Jilr. J. Wood-Mason on Pliyllotlielys. 305 



latioribus, ad latcra cxpansis nigro-fimbriatis, auto apiccm subitx> 

 oblique angustatis, declivis, apice ipso obtuso. 

 Long, 0|, lat. e]5-tr. 5| millim. 

 Ilab. Aiguan Island. 



This species is near J. Gestroi (Pascoc, Ann. Mas. Gcnova, 

 1885, t. i. fig". 3), but has the thorax narrower and more nar- 

 rowed behind, and the elytra are dilated before the middh>,, 

 with the expanded margin fringed with long black hair. The 

 rostrum is marked off from the forehead by a curved impressed 

 line and has also a median impressed line. The antennae arc 

 two thirds the length of the whole insect ; the funiculus has 

 seven elongate joints, gradually decreasing in length towards 

 tlie club, which is also elongate. The thorax is nearly as 

 much narrowed at the base as in front, covered with round 

 depressed tubercles. The elytra at their base are not wider 

 than the thorax, but at one quarter from the base the maro-in 

 is expanded to rather more than twice the width of the base, 

 then slightly narrowed posteriorly to one quarter from the 

 apex, where it is turned in at a right angle ; the dorsal sur- 

 face is rather flat, sliglitly convex at the suture ; the apical 

 part is sloping down, obliquely narrowed. The femora are 

 much thickened ; the anterior coxaj are scarcely separated. 

 The basal segment o£ the abdomen has a small velvety spot 

 in the middle of the posterior margin. The elytra, legs, and 

 underside are studded with short, stilf, pale setaj. 



L. — Monograph of Phyllothelys, a Oenus of Mantodes 

 peculiar to the Oriental Region. By J. Wood-Mason, 

 Superintendent of the Indian Museum, and Professor of 

 Comparative Anatomy in the Medical College, Calcutta. 



Genus Phyllothelys, Wood-Mason. 



PJnillothelys, Wood-Mason, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1876, p. 17G ; Ami. & 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. 1876, ser. 4, vol. xviii. p. 507 ; Proc. Ent. Soc. 1877, 

 p. xviii ; Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1884, vol. liii. pt. ii. p. 200, pi. xi.. 



Distribution. Indo-Chinese, Ceylonese and South Indian, 

 and Malayan subregions of the Oriental Region. 



1. Phyllothelys Westwoodi. 



Phyllothelys Wesftooodi, Wood-Mason, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. loc. cifc. 

 figs. I,lb,2,2b,2c,iind2d, J?. 



(J ? . Protuberance of vertex trilobed. 

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