82 Mr. W. F. Kirby on Mantidae in the 



gradually towards the extremity. Sides of mesothorax above 

 and upper surface of metathorax and abdomen mostly black, 

 or interalary spaces and base of abdomen pruinose blue; 

 the under surface, the extreme tip of the abdomen, and the 

 appendages pale. 



Front legs bone-colour or pale flesh-colour, with most of 

 the spines tipped with black ; coxae conspicuously pale and 

 marked with two small black spots above ; femora with the 

 outer side longitudinally excavated and strongly granulated 

 on the basal half, and edged below towards the tip with three 

 strong spines ; the inner surface edged with numerous spines ; 

 ridged in the middle and longitudinally excavated above ; 

 below the ridge a long black basal blotch runs nearly to the 

 middle; beyond this the ridge is marked with an interrupted 

 black line, and there is another rounded black blotch below it 

 before the extremity. Middle and hind legs flesh-colour, 

 spotted with darker. 



Tegmina hyaline, with pink nervures on the costal and 

 internal areas and on the disk ; otherwise pink, varied with 

 darker at the base, below the anterior radial, and along the 

 other principal nervures ; there are about six oblong spots on 

 the basal third of the anterior radial, which is branched at its 

 extremity ; the upper branch of the posterior radial forms a 

 short wide fork at the extremity, most distinct on the right 

 side. 



Wings brownish hyaline, darker towards the costa at the 

 base, and the costal and apical areas varied with lighter and 

 darker spaces ; the branches of the anterior ulnar vein long. 



The male is much smaller than the female and less pink, 

 with the basal half of the wings brownish. 



Hob. Ashanti; Tamsoo, Gold Coast. 



Allied to T. heterochroa, Gerst., but larger, the wings 

 lighter, more uniform in colour, and differently veined. 



Genus Humbeetiella, Sauss. 

 Humhertiella ocularis. 

 $ . Humhertiella ocularis, Sauss. M<5m. Soc. Geneve, xxiii. p. 16 (1872). 



Exp. al. 46 mm. 



Male. — Body and legs reddish above, testaceous beneath. 

 Head and prothorax more or less varied with black above ; 

 le°-s spotted and streaked with black above, the black and 

 testaceous markings forming long alternate streaks on the 

 middle and hind tibia? and tarsi. 



Tegmina of a slightly yellowish hyaline ; a row of oblong- 

 black spots along the mediastinal nervure, the rest (except 



