2.52 Bibliographical Notices. 



spaces granular and adorned with a reticulated pattern formed 

 of rows of minute granules ; dactyli short and strong, in con- 

 tact throughout, neither sinuate, lobate, nor strongly dentate, 

 but armed with a number of oblique, subparallel rows of 

 denticles, the apical denticles of each row being the largest. 



Legs with femora anteriorly granular. 



Pectines furnished with five large teeth. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 62 ; cephalo- 

 thorax, length and width 7 ; distance of central eyes from 

 post-marginal 4 : tail, length 41*5 — first segment, length 4, 

 width 3-2 ; second, length 52, width 2'8 ; third, length 5*8, 

 width 2-8 ; fourth, length G'3, width 2'8 ; fifth, length 10, 

 width 2-3 : vesicle, length 9*7, greatest width 2'5, at base 

 1-7, height 2 ; aculeus, length 2 ; palpi, humerus, length 5*5 ; 

 brachium, length 6 ; manus, width 4, length 6*7, height 4 ; 

 length of " hand-back " 6 ; movable digit, length 6. 



Two dried specimens in the Museum, apparently adult, 

 but of doubtful sex, from Sillier. One of these, which I have 

 selected as the type, was from the collection of Mr. Stains- 

 forth. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI. B, Figs. 1-1 c. 



Fig. 1. Uromachus pictus, gen. et sp. nov., nat. size. 



Fig. 1 a. Ditto. Fifth caudal segment and vesicle from the side. 



Fig. 1 b. Ditto. Aculeus from the side. 



Fin, 1 c. Ditto. Aculeus from helow. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



A Monograph of Oriental Cicadidai. By W. L. Distant. Published 

 by order of the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. — 

 Part 1. 4to. London : King & Co., 1889. 



A Catalogue of the Mantodea, with descriptions of neiv Genera and 

 Sjiecies, and an Enumeration of the Specimens in the Collection of 

 the Indian Museum, Calcutta. By J. Wood-Mason. — No. 1. 8vo. 

 Calcutta, 1889. 



[n some recent notices of Manuals of Indian Vertebrate Animals 

 issued under Government auspices, we ventured to express a hope 

 that on the completion of the proposed series of works it might be 

 found possible to treat the rich invertebrate fauna more or less in 

 the same fashion. We have now to notice the commencement of 

 two works which would seem more or less to tend towards this 

 desideratum, although they do not, in many respects, take a 

 position parallel to that of the other volumes above referred to. 



Mr. Distant's ' Monograph of Oriental CicadidaD ' certainly covers 

 the same ground, but it is a much more elaborate work than we 



