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Burmeister and Westwood place this genus with the Mantida*. 



1. HOPLOPHOKA VALIDA. 



Fusco-testacea ; alia subcinereis, venis longitudinalibus obscuriori- 

 bus. Long. 7 lin. ; alar. 14 lin. 



Hoplophora valida, Perty, Del. Anim. Artie. 126, pi. 25, f. 6. 

 Chaeteessa filata, King ; Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 528. 



Brazil. 



2. HOPLOPHORA TENUIS. 



Obscure fusca, glabra ; antennae nigra, ante apicem albidce ; caput 

 et prothorax linea communi longitudinali flavida signata; 

 alae glaberrimce. Long 4f lin.; alar 11 lin. 



Hoplophora tenuis, Perty, Del. Anim. Art. 127, pi. 25, f. 7. 

 Mantoida nitida, Newm. Ent. Mag. v. 179. 



Para. 



Genus 3. NYMPHES. 



Ocelli nulli. Tarsi antici elongati, longissimi. Ungues elon- 

 gati, graciles, plan tula vix conspicua. 



Nymphes, Leach, Zool. Miscell. i. 102, pi. 45. Burm. Handb. Ent. 



ii. 982. 

 Nymphides (Nymphes), Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 412. 



Ocelli none : labrum notched in the middle: last joint of the 

 maxillary palpi cylindrical, obtuse, a little longer than the pre- 

 ceding; last joint of the labial palpi short spindle-shaped, a little 

 longer than the preceding, much attenuated at its tip : antennae 

 filiform, at least as long as the thorax; middle joints a little thicker 

 than the others : hind-shanks with a pair of almost obsolete spurs ; 

 tarsi shorter than the tibiae, composed of five short joints; claws 

 simple, bent, furnished with onychia almost as long as themselves : 

 fore-wings with the second and third veins re-united before the tip, 

 and at the base a little cross- vein, which parting from the third vein 

 ends in the fifth. 



