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XXX— Description of a new Species 0/ Mantidse. 

 By Prof. J.Wood-Mason. 



Fischeria laticejjs, n. sp. 

 Male Body very long and filiform. Antenna tolerably 

 sto^frather longed than the prothorax. Head very broad 

 fSly'twice as br'oad as high, compressed, f frontal sm-fae 

 ranch inclined, flat; the vertex narrow, slightly arcuate in 

 TtUne as seen' from' the front. Ocelli oval, placed on theends 

 of the rays of a triradiate elevation, the lower one a little 

 ?arger than the two upper ones. The face appare^% f ;n 

 F&heria ocellata, Saussure. Eyes compressed and laterally 

 prolonged into a cone, the apex of which is blunt. 

 ^Prothorax slender 'and much elongated, not longitudinally 

 keeled above, only just perceptibly mcreasmg m width from 

 iLsLacoxal dilatation to the base, its margins finely and 

 smoothly denticulate in front, the denticles, or rather granules 

 bein.: quite rudimentary behind the dilatation ; the ventral 

 surface of the neck thinly sprinkled with sharp granules, as m 



" C^otlt'^ture, and general structure of the tegmina 

 and wings as in Fischeria ocellata ; the discoidal nervure of 

 S^elatte? simple; both in repose reachmg as far as to the 

 apex of the fourth abdominal segment. 



^Le-s very long and slender. The coxse of the fore legs 

 slio-htly curved, their anterior crest with numerous very 

 rniniJdenticles, the posterior finely sei-rated; femora very 

 Sender, their upper margin straight, the lower faintly arcuate, 

 with fo'ur spines on the outer edge, and with a lineot granules 

 Ilonff the middle of the unarmed portion; tibia, straight, 

 armed with fourteen spines on the inner, and with seven on 

 dirouter edge, the base of which is unarmed. The four 

 posterior femorL have a fine distantly spmulose crest on the 

 Cer and inner margin ; and the four posterior tibi^and tarsi 

 are armed below with two marginal rows of movable spmules 

 Abdomen of uniform width throughout ; the supraana 

 plate longitudinally sharply carinate, triangular, acuminate at 

 the extremity; the infragenital transversely convex extendmg 

 rather beyond the basSl third of the cerci, its basal third 

 plrallel-sided, its terminal and free two thirds acute-tnan- 

 Llar, and trmicate at the very tip, which carries l^^e t^^^ riiinu e 

 Lies Cerci very long, compressed, closely similar to those 

 jArchimantis distylus, difi-ering from them, m fact, only in 

 being somewhat less strongly compressed and rather narrower. 

 Female unknown. 



