352 On Mantidge/zvm the Transvaal. 



27. Pseiidocreohotra Wahlhergi. 



Pseudocreobotra Wahlbergi, Stal, Bihang Vet.-Akad. Ilandl. iv. (10) 



p. 85 (1877). 

 Harpax ocellata, Serv. (nee Beauv.) Ins. Orth. p. 158 (1839). 



2, Barberton (P. Rendall). 



CafFiarIa, Zanzibar [Stal). Natal, Nyasa (B. M.) 



One of the largest and liandsomest species of the group. 



Hakpagomantis, nom. no v. 



WHarpax, Serv. Ann. Sci. Nat. xxii. p. 49 (1831) ; Ins. Orth. p. 157 

 (1839); Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. p. 550 (1839); Sauss. M6m. Soc. 

 Geneve, xxi. (1) p. 151 (1871). 



The name Harpax i?, preoccupied in Mollusca (Park, 1811). 



28. Ilarpagomantis tricolor. 



Gryllus Mantis tricolor, Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 426. n. 9 (1858). 

 Harpax tricolor, Serv. Ins. Orth. p. 168 (1839); Sauss. M6m. Soc. 

 Geneve, xxi. p. 151 (1871). 



o Sy 2 ?, Pretoria {W. L. D.); 1 ?, Zoutpansberg 

 [Kcessner) ; 1 $ (discoloured), Barberton (P. Rendall) ; 1 ?, 

 no locality ; 1 ? , Albany Museum, Graliam's Town, March 5. 



Natal, King William's Town, N'Gami Country, Trans- 

 vaal, Mashonaland. (B. M.) 



A common and widely distributed species. The sexes 

 differ considerably. 



29. Acanthomanti's Rendalli, sp. n. 



Long, Corp. 15 millim. ; pron. 4 millim. ; lat. pron. 

 2 millim.; exp. tegm. 34 millim. 



Female. — Brown, slightly varied with pink, and on the 

 legs with blackish ; eyes large, mamillated ; back of head 

 concave and raised into a projecting angle on each side 

 behind the eyes. Tegmina and wings hyaline, the costal 

 area darker and spotted with brown ; hind margins brownish, 

 especially on the upper half of the wings ; tegmina sub- 

 parallel, apex forming a very obtuse angle above the middle 

 of the hind margin ; longitudinal nervure irregularly and 

 unsymmetrically spotted with blackish, otherwise concolorous. 

 Wings with the longitudinal nervures and the transverse 

 nervures on tlie upper third yellowish, the rest concolorous. 



1, Fort Johnston (P. Rendall). 



1 was unwilling to leave this interesting species undescribed, 

 though it is founded only on a single specimen, not in the best 

 condition. 



It appears to be quite distinct from A. aurita, Sauss. & 

 Zehntn., from Madagascar, the type of the genus. 



