348 Mr. W. F. Kirby on 



Hierodula (Sphodromantis) bicarinata, Wood-Masou, Jouni. Asiatic 



Soc. Bengal, li. p. 28 (1882). 

 Mantis Kersteni, Gerst. Arch. f. Nat. xxxv. p. 209 (1869) ; Von der 



Decken, Reisen, iii. (2) p. 13 (1873) (necStal, nee Saus3, & Zehntn.). 



3, Pretoria (Distant) ; 5, Barberton {P. Rendall) ; 1, Salis- 

 bury, j\Jaslionaland [Marshall) ; 1, Zoutpansberg [Kcessner) ; 

 1, Angola [Jlonfeiro). 



A common species throughout Eastern and Southern Africa, 

 if not also in West Africa. Some of Mr. Distant's specimens 

 are brown instead of green, and one is pink ; but he assures 

 me that they were so coloured wdien captured. 



Gersta3cker's M. Kersteni appears to be a synonym of this 

 species and not to belong to that to which Stal afterwards 

 applied the name. The latter may be known by having two 

 large round white spots on the inner side of the front coxa3. 



13. Rhomhodera scutata. 

 Hhomhodera scutata, Karscli, Eat. Naclir. xviii. p. 6 (1892). 



1, Fort Johnston [P. Rendall), 



Angola and Malange [Karsch] ; Tanganyika, Fwambo, 

 and Zambesi. (B. M.) 



14. Mantis sacra. 

 Mantis sacra, Thunb, Mem. Acad. Pdtersb. v. p. 289 (1815). 



2, Pretoria (IF. Z.i).). 



15. Mantis pia. 

 Mantis pia, Serv. Ins. Orth. p. 193 (1839). 



2, Pretoria (IF. L. D.); 2, Fort Johnston {P. Rendall) ; 

 1, Barberton (P. Rendall). 



1'his insect is usually considered synonymous with the last. 

 It differs from it in the large black spot at the base of the 

 front coxce being unicolorous; in M. sacra it has a large I'cd 

 or yellow centre. 



16. Iloplocorypha galeata. 



Mantis (? Banuria) r/nleata, Gorst. Arcli. f. Nat. xxxv. p. 210 (1870) ; 



Von der Uecken, Keiseu, iii. (2) p. 16 (1873). 

 Parathespis r/akata, Sauss. M^m. Soc. Geneve, xxi. p. 135(1871), xxiii. 



p. 63 (1873). 

 Iloplocorypha macra, Stal, ffifvers. Vet.-Akad. Fcirh. xxviii. p. 388 



(1871). 



1, Pretoria (TF. Z. Z>.). 



A widely distributed species in Southern and Eastern 

 Africa. 



