352 On Mantidffi//'ow the Transvaal. 



27. Pseuclocreohotra Wahlbergi. 



Pseudocreohotra Wahlhergi, Stal, Biliang Vet.-Akad. Handl. iv. (10) 



p. 85 (1877). 

 Harpax ocellata, Serv. (nee Beauv.) Ins. Orth. p. 158 (1839). 



2, Barberton (P. Rendall). 



Caffraria, Zanzibar [Sthl). Natal, Nyasa (B. M.) 



One of the largest and handsomest species of the group. 



Harpagomantis, nom. no v. 



\\Harpax, Serv. Ann. Sci. Nat. xxii. p. 49 (1831) ; Ins. Orth. p. 157 

 (1839); Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. p. 550 (1839); Sauss. Mem. Soc. 

 Geneve, xxi. (1) p. 151 (1871). 



The name Harpax is preoccupied in Mollusca (Park, 1811). 



28. Harp ago mantis tricolor. 



Gryllus Mantis tricolor, Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 426. n. 9 (1858). 

 Harpax' tricolor, Serv. Ins. Orth. p. 158 (1839); Sauss. M6m. Soc. 

 Geneve, xxi. p. 151 (1871). 



o c? , 2 ? , Pretoria ( W. L. D.) ; 1 ? , Zoutpansberg 

 [Kcessner) ; 1 $ (discoloured), Barberton [P. Rendall) ; 1 ?, 

 no locality ; 1 ? , Albany ]\Iuseum, Graham's Town, March 5. 



Natal, King William's Town, N'Gami Country, Trans- 

 vaal, Mashonaland. (B. M.) 



A common and widely distributed species. The sexes 

 differ considerably. 



29. Acanthomantis Bendalli^ sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 15 millim. ; pron. 4 millim, ; lat. pron. 

 2 millim.; exp. tegm. 34 millim. 



Female. — Brown, slightly varied with pink, and on the 

 legs with blackish; eyes large, mamillated; back of head 

 concave and raised into a projecting angle on each side 

 behind the eyes. Tegmina and wings hyaline, the costal 

 area darker and spotted with brown ; hind margins brownish, 

 especially on the upper half of the wings ; tegmina sub- 

 parallel, apex forming a very obtuse angle above the middle 

 of the hind margin ; longitudinal nervure irregularly and 

 unsymmetrically spotted with blackish, otherwise concolorous. 

 Wings with the longitudinal nervures and the transverse 

 iiervures on the uj^per third yellowish, the rest concolorous. 



1, Fort Johnston (P. Rendall). 



1 was unwilling to leave this interesting species undescribed, 

 though it is founded only on a single specimen, not in the best 

 condition. 



It appears to be quite distinct from A. aurita, Sauss. & 

 Zehntn., from Madagascar, the type of the genus. 



