146 Christmas Island. 



12. Leucophoea surinamensis, 



Blatta surinamensis, Linu. : Syst. Nat., 10th ed., i, p. 424, n. 3 (1758). 

 Panchlora {Leucophoea) surinamensis, Brunn. : Syst. Blatt., p. 278, Tab. vii, 

 lig. 32 (1865). 



Flying Fish Cove, August, 1897. 



A single specimen of this cosmopolitan species was found in 

 rotting wood. 



13. Panesthia javanica. 



Panesthia javanica, Serv. : Ann. Sci. Nat., xxii, p. 38 (1832); Brunn., Syst. 

 Blatt, p. 393, Tab. viii, fig. 58 (1865) ; Kirb., P.Z.S., 1888, 

 p. 547. 



These insects abound under rotten wood, and in large holes in 

 it, which they seem to make. In various stages of development. 

 West End, Christmas Island, October 1, 4, 5, 1887 (Lister). 



Ten specimens in various stages. Flying Fish Cove, August, 

 1897 ; also December, 1897. They appropriate the burrows of 

 wood-boring beetles. (Andrews.) 



Family MANTIDJE. 



14. Hierodula dispar, sp.n. 



Dimensions. 5 



Long, corp 55-65 mm. ... 63-74 mm. 



Long, partis anticse pronoti ... 6 



Long, partis posticse pronoti ... 14 



Long, pronoti toti ... ... 20 



Long, tegminarum ... ... 45-55 



Lat. pronoti 7 



7-9 

 13-16 



20-27 



50-66 



9-11 



Male. — Body probably green when living ; afterwards yellowish 

 or brown ; pronotum often with some brown or purplish markings. 

 Pronotum broadest in front, and serrated at the sides. Front coxee 

 beneath, with a dentated ridge at the base, generally rising in two 

 large, flat, triangular projections (sometimes three larger projections) 

 followed by a few smaller ones, irregular in number and position. 

 Front tibiae with four strong teeth on the outer edge, and many on 

 the inner, mostly tipped with black ; front tarsi black on the inside. 

 Wings and tegmina vitreous, with green nervures, which are very 

 numerous towards the apex ; costal area of tegmina green (or 

 yellow, as well as the nervures, in faded (?) specimens) ; stigma 

 large, oval, yellowish white. 



Female. — Green, or purplish grey (rarely olive yellow) ; tegmina 

 nearly opaque, mottled with purplish grey, and in the costal area 

 with yellowish ; front coxae and femora beneath white ; tibiae 

 mostly yellowish. Coxae with two large, flat, round plates on the 



