162 Prof. J. Wood-Mason on the Genus Choeradodis. 



5. Choeradodis Stain, n. sp. 



Differs from the preceding in the shape of the blotch (which 

 is pointed at both ends and commences in the ungual groove, 

 and on either side of which the femur is pale luteous yellow 

 instead of being clouded with fuscous) , in being without a 

 fuscous speck at the distal end of the stigma, in its shorter 

 and differently shaped facial shield, and in having the antero- 

 lateral margins and the lateral angles of the pronotal expan- 

 sions sinuous-concave and more broadly rounded off re- 

 spectively. 



Hah. 1 $ , 4 $ , Ecuador {Buckley) , in the collection of the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



6. Choeradodis rhomboidea. 



Mantis rhomboidea, Stoll, Spectres et Mantes, pi. xi. fig. 45, c? • 



The male insect from Para, in the British Museum, agrees 

 neither with Saussure's description (loc. supra cit. p. 18) nor 

 with any of the specimens in the Indian Museum ; it more 

 nearly approaches Stoll's figure, agreeing therewith in the 

 points in which it differs from them. 



The blotch commences in the ungual groove, thence ex- 

 tending as far along the femur as in the preceding four 

 species ; but it is not followed by a marginal row of black 

 points. The pronotal lamella? have no posterior angles. 



Hob. £ , Para, in the collection of the British Museum. 

 A nymph, from Ega, in the same collection, probably also 

 belongs to this species. 



This species is most nearly allied to Ch. laticollis. 



(/3) The blotch on the upper half of the joint (Indian). 



7. Choeradodis squilla. 



? Mantis cancellata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 1793, p. 18. 



Cficeradodis squilla, Saussure, Mel. Orthopt. t. i. 3e fasc. p. 161, pi. iv. 



fio-s. 3, 3«, c? et nynipha ; Lucas, Ann. Soc. Entom. Fr. 5e ser. t. ii. 



1872, p. 32, $ . 



Hab. India generally, from Ceylon ( £ et nympha, Saus- 

 sure; larva, in I. M. Calc), Madras (2, Lucas), Central 

 India (in coll. Hop. Oxon.), to the banks of the Killing 

 river, in the N. Khasi hills, on the north-east frontier 

 (nymph, A. W. Chennell). 



Obs. A specimen of this species in the British Museum 

 is erroneously marked "Brazil." 



