and little-known Mantide. 145 
face is of the same sober colour as the body, with a patch of 
lighter coloration coinciding with the anteapical cream- 
coloured ocellus on the under surface; the anal area very 
salient, black, with green reflections (dark brown by trans- 
mitted light). Wings small, forming a quadrant of a circle 
all but unbroken by anal emargination; the anterior field 
opaque, dull luteous, with a large anteapical blotch of brown, 
ocellate or broadly banded with yellow; the posterior field 
black, with green reflections (dark brown by transmitted light), 
lined with hyaline along the transverse veinlets. 
Colour of the body luteous grey, finely mottled with pale 
impure olive-green. 
Length of body 102 millims. ; height of head 4°75, breadth 
of head 9°8 ; length of prothorax 34, of which the neck is 9°6, 
breadth of prothorax at supracoxal dilatation 4°6; length of 
abdomen 51, of cerci 12°75, of tegmina 16; width of mar- 
ginal area of tegmina 1; length of anterior femur 22°6, of inter- 
mediate femur 25, of posterior femur 33; of antenne 16, or 
about half as long as the prothorax, or as long as the teg- 
mina. 
Another specimen obtained at the same time measures only 
93 millims. in length. 
Described from fresh alcoholic specimens. 
Hab. 2 2 . Bangalore District, Mysore, obtained by Private 
Reedy;  , Sheargaon, Kolapur state, India. 
There can be no doubt that the four insects, two nymphs 
and two adults, recently received by me from South India, 
are all females of this species, though so much smaller than 
the male specimen described loc. supra cit. In the form of 
the head and eyes, of the cerc: and supraanal plate, of the 
legs, &e. they all agree perfectly with the male, differing 
from it in those points only in which the two sexes of other 
species (e. g. J. ocellata) of the same genus have been shown 
to depart from one another. These differences are the slightly 
stouter build, the soberer desert-form-like livery, the much- 
abbreviated organs of flight, these barely reaching the end of 
the basal third of the first abdominal segment, &c. 
Specimens of both sexes of the larger race are in the 
Hopeian collection at Oxford ; but the species is unrepresented 
either in the National collection or apparently in the conti- 
nental collections. 
3. Hierodula notata. 
Mantis notata, Stoll, Spectres, Mantes, &c. fig. 49, 2 (1789). 
Hierodula notata, Saussure, Mélanges Orthopt. ii. 3° fase. p. 280, 
pl. v. fig. 31, 
9. Total length 67 millims.; length of prothorax 23, 
