348 Mr. W. F. Kirby on 



Hierodula {Sphodromantis) bicarinata, Wood-Mason, Journ. Asiatic 



Soc. Bengal, li. p. 28 (1882). 

 Maiitis Kersteni, Gerst. Arch. f. Nat. xxxv. p. 209 (1869) ; Von der 



Decken, Eeisen, iii. (2) p. 13 (1873) (nee Sti,l, nee Sauss. & Zehntn.). 



3, Pretoria {Distant) ; 5, Barberton (P. Rendall) ; 1, Salis- 

 bury, Mashonaland [Marshall)] 1, Zoutpansberg [Kcessner) ; 

 1, Angola [Monteiro). 



A common species throughout Eastern and Southern Africa, 

 if not also in West Africa. Some of Mr. Distant's specimens 

 are brown instead of green, and one is pink ; but he assures 

 me that they were so coloured when captured. 



Gerstgecker's M. Kersteni appears to be a synonym of this 

 species and not to belong to that to which Stal afterwards 

 applied the name. The latter may be known by having two 

 large round white spots on the inner side of the front coxae. 



13. Rhomhodera scutata. 

 Rhomhodera scutata, Karsch, Eiit. Nachr. xviii. p. 6 (1892). 



1, Fort Johnston (P. Rendall). 



Angola and Malange [Karsch) ; Tanganyika, Fwambo, 

 and Zambesi. (B. M.) 



14. Mantis sacra. 

 Mantis sacra, Thunb, Mem. Acad. P(5tersb. v. p. 289 (1815). 



2, Pretoria (PF. L. JD.). 



15. Mantis ina. 

 Mantis pia, Serv. Ins. Ortli. p. 193 (1839). 



2, Pretoria (TF. L. Z).); 2, Fort Johnston [P. Rendall) ; 

 1, Barberton (P. Rendall). 



This insect is usually considered synonymous with the last. 

 It differs from it in the large black spot at the base of the 

 front coxge being unicolorous; in M. sacra it has a large red 

 or yellow centre. 



16. Hoplocorypha galeata. 



Mantis (? Danuria) galeata, Gerst. Arch. f. Nat. xxxv. p. 210 (1870) ; 



Von der Decken, Reisen, iii. (2) p. 16 (1873). 

 Parathespis galeata, Sauss. Mdm. Soc. Geneve, xxi. p. 135 (1871), xxiii. 



p. 63 (1873). 

 Hoptlocwypha macro, Stal, CEfvers. Vet.-Akad. Forh. xxviii. p. 388 



(1871). 



1, Pretoria [W. L. D.). 



A widely distributed species in Southern and Eastern 

 Africa. 



