580 MR. J. WOOD- MASON ON NEW MANTID.E. [May 21, 



3. On new and little-known Mantidce. 

 By J. Wood-Mason. 



[Received May 7, 1878.] 



(Plates XXXV. & XXXVI.) 



Genus Deiphobe, St&l. 



M. Still has recently ' made the Fischeria ocellata, Sauss. (the 

 nearest ally of F. laticeps), the type of a new genus, Deiphobe, and 

 restricted, rightly as it seems to me, the name Fischeria to Fischeria 

 bcetica and its allies, species in which, as in Eremiophila, structures 

 ancillary to the ovipositor 2 are developed upon the two terminal ven- 

 tral segments of the abdomen. Though F. laticeps differs from 

 Deiphobe ocellata in the form of the eyes (which are compressed and 

 produced straight outwards in the form of blunt cones), in its long, 

 stout, and subfoliaceous cerci (which extend far beyond the extre- 

 mity of the abdomen), and in its more elongated and slenderer body, 

 it yet resembles that species so closely in all other characters that its 

 separation seems unwarrantable. 



Deiphobe laticeps. (Plate XXXV. cf 2 •) 



Fischeria laticeps, Wood-Mason, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1876, 

 4th ser. vol. xviii. p. 337, 6 ; op. cit. 1878, 5th ser. vol. i. p. 14-4, 2 . 



Hab. 2 $ , Bangalore district, Mysore ; d , Sheargaon, Kolapur 

 State, India. 



The typical specimens are in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



HlERODULA (RHOMBODERA) TECTIFORMIS. 



Rh. tectiformis, Saussure, Mel. Orthopt. torn. i. fasc. 3, p. 216, 

 pi. v. fig. 19,2- 



In all the numerous specimens of this species which I have exa- 

 mined the basal or superior angle of the facial shield is produced into 

 a small projecting spiniform tubercle — a point of structure not men- 

 tioned by M. de Saussure in his description. 



The first branch of the discoidal vein of the tegmina terminates at 

 the sutural margin in males in two, in females in three branchlets. 



Hab. I have a S from Jalra-patan, captured by Mr. Cecil Tem- 

 pleton of the Indian Topographical Survey, a 2 from Sahibganj by 

 myself, and a S from Doomarkoonda in the same district, and a 2 

 nymph from Sambalpur by Mr. Valentine Ball. 



Obs. The lamellar fore margin of the tegmina is entire. 



Hierodula (Rhombodera) butleri, n. sp. (Plate XXXVI. 

 figs. 3, 3 a, 3 b.) 



d 2 • Very closely allied to H. (R.) tectiformis, Sauss., from which 

 it differs in having no projecting spiniform tubercle in the middle of 



1 Bihang till k. Svenska Vet. Akad. Hand. 1877, Bandet iv. No. 10. 



2 I have observed similar structures in the South-African Chroicoptera vidua, 

 StaL All the insects thus provided probably lay their eggs in the earth. 



