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the superior margin of the facial shield, in having the lamellar expan- 

 sions of the pronotum arcuate in outline, and consequently broader 

 postero-laterally, and not angulate antero-laterally— in its more pointed 

 tegmina, the first branch of the discoidal vein of which terminates at 

 the sutural margin in three ( d ) or four ( 5 ) branchlets, instead of 

 two and three respectively; the last branch of the median vein is 

 undivided ; and the stigma is bounded at either end by a dark blotch, 

 is larger, and commences as much before the origin of the third 



branch of the discoidal vein as it does after it in the allied species, 



in the armature of the fore coxae, the anterior crest of which is fur- 

 nished with five blunt and slightly curved conspicuous conical spines, 

 arranged 3 + 2, and all arising from its inner side and not from its 

 summit, the outer crest of which is only smoothly and obscurely 

 denticulate — and in the coloration of the fore femora, which are 

 transversely trifasciate externally, and have no conspicuous red blotch 

 at the base of the inner face. 



The fore tibiae have thirteen teeth ( <5 $ ) on the inner, and ten 

 (eleven on one side in one ? ) on the outer edge. 



The pronotum of the male is faintly constricted behind the setting- 

 on of the fore legs ; so that when viewed from above its lamellar 

 margins appear slightly excised. 



Total length, $ 72-82 millims. ; length of pronotum, $ 20-5- 

 22-25, d 15-25; greatest breadth of pronotum (at the anterior end 

 of its posterior lobe), $ 1 1-75-13-75, tf 7-75; breadth of primitive 

 pronotum at dilatation, $ 8-5-10-75, J 6 ; length of tegmina, 2 

 62-69, to stigma $ 19-22; breadth of tegmina, $ 22, of marginal 

 field, 2 5-5 ; length of stigma, $ 5-6, tf 47 ; breadth of stigma, 

 2 13, c? 09. 6 



Hub. The neighbourhood of Samaguting, Naga Hills, Assam, 

 whence a specimen of the female was sent to me some years ago 

 by my late friend Captain John Butler, the Political Agent, after 

 whom I name it. A second and smaller specimen of the same sex 

 has recently been obtained by Mr. A. W. Chennell, of the Indian 

 Topographical Survey, in the valley of the Um-thana, W. Khasi 

 Hills, at about 15,000 feet elevation. But the only male I have 

 ever seen is a much mutilated and abnormally small insect from 

 Sikkim in the collection of Mr. F. Moore. 



Obs. The species differs in the form of the pronotum from H. 

 tectiformis much in the same way as H. deflexa, Sauss., does from 

 7/. laticollis, Burm., Sauss. 



The lamellar front margin of the tegmina is entire. 



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

 figs. 5, 5 a.) 



6 . Allied to H. (It.) macropsis, Giebel, which it closely resem- 

 bles in the form of the pronotum, but from which it differs in its 

 larger size, in having the primitive pronotum apparently longer and 

 stouter, the facial shield higher than broad and distinctly bicarinate, 

 and in having the anterior crest of the fore coxae rather lower and 

 blunter (than usual) than produced and lamellar. 



