Miscellaneous. 2(Jl 



this bear from the true Ursi ; and I propose to regard it, provision- 

 ally, as a species of Arctotherium, Gerv. The canine teeth are large, 

 and compressed at the base. Length of cranium, along base from 

 below apex of union to prcmaxillary border, Q-3S7 metre, length 

 to posterior nares -202, elevation of forehead vertically above the 

 posterior extremity of the last molar "141, width between inner 

 border of posterior molars *076. The species may be called Arcto- 

 therium simum. — American Naturalist, December 1879. 



On the Systematic Position of some little-known Asiatic Mantodea, 

 with Descriptions of two new Species belonging to the Genus Hestias. 

 (Abstract.) By J. Wood-Mason. 



Genus Hestias, Saussure. 



The genus Hestias, proposed in 1871 by Be Saussure for the re- 

 ception of a remarkable insect from Sylhet, is referred to the sub- 

 family Harpagidae, wherein it must take its place next after, or in 

 the immediate neighbourhood of, Acromantis and its allies, from 

 which it is readily distinguishable by the form of the prothorax, by 

 the structure and by the peculiar style of colouring of the insides 

 of the fore legs, &c. The author recognizes five species (of which 

 two are now for the. first time described), viz. : — 



1. Hestias Brunneriana, Saussure. 



Hestias Brunneriana, Saussure, Mel. Orthopt. i. 1871, 3 me fasc. p. 454, 

 2 ; Wood-Mason, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. August 1876, c? $ • 



Hub. Sylhet and Calcutta in Northern India, and Mysore in 

 Southern India. 



2.< Hestias Rogenhoferi. 



Pachymantis Ror/enhoftri, Saussure, Mel. Orthopt. ii. 1872, p. 77, pi. ix. 

 fig. 27, $. 



Hab. Moluccas ? 



3. Hestias pictipes, n. sp. 



Male and Female. Head with a minute horn shaped like that of 

 H. Brunneriana J . Organs of flight of female not reaching, of 

 male extending beyond, extremity of abdomen. Tegmina of female 

 with the marginal field opaque light yellowish green, the rest deli- 

 cately hyaline ; wings with marginal field subopaque orange-yellow, 

 the venation of the rest of the organ of the same colour narrowly 

 lined with hyaline, and the meshes pale smoky. Fore coxae red- 

 violet, especially internally, femora inside on the lower half jet- 

 black, with three distinct white spots in a longitudinal row, and 

 with a narrow black stripe extending from the base along fully three 

 fourths of the length of the margin of the folia ceous expansion, the 

 rest of the surface being rich red-violet. 



Length of female about 10 millims., of male 17 millims. 



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