262 Miscellaneous. 



The specimen of the male is somewhat hleached from long resi- 

 dence in spirit. 



Hab. Female, Marble Rocks, near Jahalpur in the Central Pro- 

 vinces of India ; male, precise locality unknown. 



4. Hestias inermis, n. sp. 



Female. Head without a vestige of a horn, with the postocular 

 tubercles by correlation reduced to low, smooth, and rounded eleva- 

 tions, behind the ocelli longitudinally deeply 4-sulcate. Organs of 

 flight not reaching extremity of body ; tegmina with the light opaque 

 umber-brown marginal field pubescent, and with the posterior 

 field rich dark umber-brown, mottled in places with lighter and 

 with hyaline, and crossed beyond the middle by a band half hyaline 

 and half opaque cream-coloured ; wings opaque lemon-yellow, very 

 broadly margined with dark brown, with the transverse veinlets 

 lined with hyaline. 



Fore coxa? jet-black inside ; femora jet-black at base, whence this 

 colour is continued for some distance as a marginal band onto the 

 foliaceous expansion. 



Length about 34 millims. 



Hab. Naga Hills ( Captain J. Butler). Very nearly allied to the 

 following. 



5. Hestias phyllopus. 



Mantis (Oxypilus) phyllopus, De Haan, Bijdr. &c. p. 84, pi. xvi. 

 fig. 7, c?. 



The fore femora of male and female have two black stripes in the 

 lower half (primitive femur). 



The author has seen a specimen of the female either at Oxford or 

 in the British Museum. 



Hub. Java. 



Genus Oxtpiltjs, Serville. 



The author considers that this genus should be transferred from 

 the Mantidae to the Harpagidas, and therein placed between the 

 genera Hestias and Sigerpes. Ceratomantis Saussurii, W.-M., and 

 Mantis (O.vypilus) bicingulata , De Haan, are shown to be closely 

 allied Asiatic species of it, having the same relation to one another, 

 as regards degree of development of the cephalic horn, as have 

 Hestias Brunneriana and Hestias pietipes. Oxypilus has in common 

 with Sigerpes the two posterior ocelli placed at the bases of spines. 

 The author has only been able to study immature specimens of one 

 African species ; and if the perfect winged insects of these should 

 hereafter be found to differ sufficiently from those of the Asiatic 

 species to warrant their separation from them generically, the latter 

 must take the name of Pachymantis proposed for the reception of 

 De Haan's Mantis bicingulata by De Saussure. — Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 

 November 1879. 



