258 Mr. W. F. Kirby on 



Trichomera insignata, sp. n. (PL XII. fig. 5.) 



Long. Corp. 20-21 millim., lat. 13 millim. 



Female. — Blackish, with testaceous markings ; face nearly 

 smooth, shining black below the vertex, the sides, mouth, 

 and a band within the eyes and antennfe testaceous; vertex 

 testaceous in front, with blackish streaks projecting into it 

 from behind; head and thorax clothed with fine down; pro- 

 thorax and sides of meso- and metathorax finely punctured, 

 middle of meso- and metathorax and abdomen rather coarsely 

 granulated ; mesothorax testaceous, somewhat speckled with 

 reddish brown, the centre filled up with a large blackish 

 blotch, with two projecting angles on each side in front and 

 behind, the two innermost of the hinder projections extending 

 to the hinder margin of the prothorax, and the second of the 

 front projections connected with a large oblong black patch 

 bordering part of the sides of the prothorax ; meso- and 

 metathorax bordered on the sides with reddish brown and 

 with several irregular testaceous markings ; on the abdomen 

 these are continued more regularly, forming a central and 

 nearly parallel series, and two outer series, the first of which 

 is nearly straight and the second connected with the testa- 

 ceous border below the lateral angles of the segments ; supra- 

 anal plate black, with a broad testaceous band on each side ; 

 cerci black ; antennse reddish, shading into brown ; pectus 

 testaceous ; abdomen brown beneath. 



Two specimens obtained. 



Family Mantidse. 

 Subfamily Mantinjs. 

 HiEKODULA, Burm. 



A single immature specimen of this genus, remarkable for 

 the very heavy black band on the front femora and tibiae and 

 for the black spines of the latter. 



Family Phasmidse. 



Subfamily Falophin^. 



Falophus centaur us. 



Falojjhtis centmirus, Westw. Cat. Phasm. p. 91. n. 233, pi, xxxii. fig. 1 

 (1859) ; Brogn. Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, (3) iii. p. 195, pi. viii., 

 pi. ix. Hgs. 1-4 (1892). 



One of the largest winged African Phasmidai. A single 

 female specimen was in the collection. 



