344 Mr. W. F. Klrby on 



submarginal spots between the tails are all surmounted by 

 deep orange A -shaped caps ; only the spot on the inferior 

 median interspace is intensely black, all the others are brown. 



Expanse of wings 32 millim. 



St. Aignan Island, Louisiades {A. S. Meek). 



Lyccenesthes aruana, sp. n. 



^ . Very like a large L. emolus on both surfaces, but the 

 secondaries above with well-defined black submarginal spots 

 as in L. amhoinensis : on the under surface the orange- 

 bordered spot of the secondaries is much larger than in 

 L. emolus, but otherwise the markings are extremely similar. 



Expanse of wings 36 millim. 



? . This sex may be distinguished at a glance from the 

 female of L. emolus by the possession of a large white patch 

 on the upper surface of the primaries as in Philiris iutensa 

 from the same island : under surface generally whiter than 

 h. emolus, but otherwise similar. 



Expanse of wings 36 millim. 



cJ, Aru [Wallace) : B. M. ? , coll. Hewitson. 



XXXVII. — On a Collection of Mantida3 //'om the Transvaal 

 cfcc. formed hij Mr. W. L.' Distant. By W. F. KlUBY, 

 F.L'.S., F.E.S., e^c. 



Most of the species enumerated in the following list were 

 collected by Mr. Distant in the Transvaal and by Mr. P. 

 Rendall in Nyasaland ; a few, however, are from other 

 localities. The Mantidse are conspicuous insects and fairly 

 well known, and therefore the proportion of new species is not 

 large. There are, however, several quite common species 

 about which much ambiguity exists, owing to the typical 

 specimens not having been figured, and to the omission of 

 important characters in the descriptions. 

 The collection includes thirty-two species. 



OIITHOPTERA. 



I/Eantidse. 



EbemiaphilinJE, Pyryomantis, Gerst. 



Chiropm, Sauss. ^ > '\^m^<^ris, Gerst. 



1. insidiator, Wood-Mason. Lyr/dmrna. 



2. manra, StEl. J- f /';{«^f' ?auss. 

 Tarachodes, Bunn. ^- lenticidans, bauss. 



3. perloides, Biuiii. 



