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16. M. ten el la : flava, abdomine fusco-variegato, prothorace 

 aequali subtiliter granulato, alis hyalinis, costa pallida, stigmate 

 brunneo. Long 4| — 5 lin. Cape of Good Hope. 



17. M. nana: pallida, abdomine fusco-variegato, prothorace 

 aequali subtiliter granulato, alis hyalinis, stigmate subfusco. 

 Long. 4 lin. Donsola. 



18. M. gracilis: fusca, capite, prothorace, pedibusque flaves- 

 centibus, prothorace aequali laevi, alis hyalinis, costa flava, 

 stigmate brunneo. Long. 5 lin. Brazil. 



1 9. M. viridula : pallide viridis, alis albo-hy alinis, costa stigmate- 

 que corpori concoloribus. Long. 4| lin. Brazil. 



20. M. Notha: picea, pilosa, prothorace brevi, abdomine supra 

 lobato, tibiis posticis compressis, alis inaequalibus, fusco- 

 maculatis. Tab. 2, f. 6. Long. 3| lin. Brazil. 



21. M. interrupta (Say, Amer. Ent. ii. pi. 25) : pallida, ad- 

 domine linea dorsali incisurisque nigris, alis hyalinis, costa 

 ferruginea ante apicem interrupta. Long. 6| lin. North 

 America. 



22. M.minuta (Fabr.* Syst. Ent. 278, 21) : M. capite thorace- 

 que cylindrico flavescentibus ; elytris absque hyalinis, costa 

 flavescenti, s. virescenti, abdomine virescenti dorso flaves- 

 cente, pedibus virescentibus. Hab. ? In Mus. Banks. 



23. M.Jlavo-maculata (Latr. Mantis Liliputiana, Oliv. Encycl.): 

 flava, capite pedibusque posterioribus viridibus, prothorace 

 lateribus fusco, abdomine pedibusque anticis ferrugineis, 

 alis virescenti-hyalinis. Surinam. 



24. M. rufescens (Latr. Stoll. pi. 4, fig. 15, M. Nabota, Oliv. 

 Encycl.): brunnea, antennis brunneis filiformibus, alis flaves- 

 centibus, stigmate brunneo. Coromandel. 



The following additional species have been described since the 

 publication of Erichson's Monograph : — 



25. M. Guerinii :f atro-fusca, femoribus anterioribus latis, trans- 



* The type specimen is still preserved in the Banksian Cabinet. The subse- 

 quent description in the Ent. Syst. ii. 24, 50—' Elytra — puncto medio parvo albo ; 

 alae rufescentes, apice hyalinas margineque interiori nigricantes" — seems to have 

 been added from some small Manticiean. 



t In consequence of the confusion in the nomenclature of the larger insects 

 of the genus, the name and synonymy of this species will stand as follows : — 

 2. Matitispa Guerinii, Westw. 



Mantispa grandis, Guerin in Duperrey's Voy. Coquille ; Adas, Ins. pi. x. 

 fig. 4, texte 11, part 2, p. 196. (Nee M. grandis, Erichson ; nee M. 

 grandis, Burm.) 



