270 Mr. J. O. Westwood on Mantispa. 



distinct subgenus, to which the name of Trichoscelia,* in allusion 

 to the hirsute tibiae, may be applied. 



Head wide, crown very convex, blackish. Antennae longer than 

 the head and prothorax, slender, hirsute, 46-jointed ; basal joint 

 robust, nearly rounded ; second joint short, thick ; third longer 

 than the second ; fourth and following joints very short, growing 

 rather longer towards the middle, where they are cup-shaped. 

 Maxillary palpi very slender, acute at the tips ; labial palpi thick, 

 terminal joint subulated. Prothorax not twice the length of the 

 head, not so wide in front as the hind part of the eyes, not 

 transversely wrinkled, subdepressed, rather widened in front, 

 fulvous, meso- and metathorax much widened, fulvous. Abdomen 

 slender, brown above, dirty fulvous at the sides. Fore legs 

 fulvous ; femora with a row of equal sized minute teeth ; tarsi 

 with the basal joint produced in a long acute point, terminal joints 

 set on at the side of the preceding, very slender, terminated by 

 two minute simple acute ungues and a small pulvillus. Middle 

 legs fulvous ; tibia rather dilated ; hind legs with the femora 

 slender, fulvous ; tibiae dilated, hirsute and black ; tarsi dark 

 fulvous; ungues of all the four hind legs very slender, simple 

 and acute. Fore wings large, wide, ovate, nearly colourless ; 

 principal veins, especially towards the base of the wing, fulvous ; 

 stigma of all the wings blackish ; fore wings with a rather broad, 

 transverse, blackish fascia beyond the middle, interrupted in its 

 centre ; veins longitudinal, scarcely oblique, the discoidal cells 

 dependent on the ordinary radial sectors, not more than five in 

 number. The margin of the wing is composed of a series of 

 very minute black globular tubercles, each emitting one or more 

 fine hairs. 



Note. — Each figure is accompanied by details representing 

 portions of the antennae and extremities of the legs. 



P.S. — The genus Hoplophora, Perty (Delect, an. art. Bras. 126), 

 Chaelessa, Burmeister (Handb. d. Ent. ii. 527), Mantoida, 

 Newman (Ent. Mag. v. 179), placed by Perty in the Neuroptera 



near Mantispa, and by Newman in "Natural Order ?" belongs 



to the Mantidce, as proved by the dentate inner lobe of the 

 maxillae and the divided labium. A specimen is in the cabinet 

 of W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.L.S. 



* Schneider (Monogr. Raphid.) suggests this separation, with the name of 

 Anisoptera. There is, however, a genus of Geometridm named Anisopteryx, and 

 the termination ptera must be restricted to the names of the orders, and not used 

 for genera. 



