Mr. J. Wood-Mason on Phyllothelys. 365 
Jatioribus, ad latera expansis nigro-fimbriatis, ante apicem subite 
oblique angustatis, declivis, apice ipso obtuso. 
Long. 93, lat. elytr. 54 millim. 
Hab. Aignan Island. 
This species is near A. Gestrot (Pascoe, Ann. Mus. Genova, 
1885, t. 1. fig. 3), but has the thorax narrower and more nar- 
rowed behind, and the elytra are dilated before the middle, 
with the expanded margin fringed with long black hair. The 
rostrum is marked off from the forehead by a curved impressed 
line and has also a median impressed line. The antenne are 
two thirds the length of the whole insect; the funiculus has 
seven elongate joints, gradually decreasing in length towards 
the club, whiclr is also elongate. The thorax is nearly as 
much narrowed at the base as in front, covered with round 
depressed tubercles. The elytra at their base are not wider 
than the thorax, but at one quarter from the base the margin 
is expanded to rather mere than twice the width of the base, 
then slightly narrowed posteriorly to one quarter from the 
apex, where it is turned in at aright angle; the dorsal sur- 
face is rather flat, slightly convex at the suture; the apical 
part is sloping down, obliquely narrowed. The femora are 
much thickened; the anterior cox are scarcely separated. 
The basal segment of the abdomen has a small velvety spot 
in the middle of the posterior margin. ‘The elytra, legs, and 
underside are studded with short, stiff, pale setae. 
L,.—Monograph of Phyllothelys, a Genus of Mantodes 
peculiar to the Oriental Region. By J. Woop-Mason, 
Superintendent of the Indian Museum, and Professor of 
Comparative Anatomy in the Medical College, Calcutta. 
Genus PHYLLOTHELYS, Wood-Mason. 
Phyllothelys, Wood-Mason, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1876, p. 176; Ann. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist. 1876, ser. 4, vol. xviii. p. 507 ; Proc. Ent. Soc. 1877, 
p- xviii; Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1884, vol. lili. pt. ii. p. 206, pl. xi., 
3 Q. 
Distribution. Indo-Chinese, Ceylonese and South Indian, 
and Malayan subregions of the Oriental Region. 
1. Phyllothelys Westwood'. 
Phyllothelys Westwoodi, Wood-Mason, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. loc. cit. 
figs. 1, 1b, 2,26,-2c,and 2d, dg @. 
$ ¢?. Protuberance of vertex trilobed. 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 6. Vol. iv. 
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