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



The organs of flight are long and rather pointed, extending, when 

 closed, far (nearly a fourth of their length) heyond the extremity 

 of the abdomen. The tegmina are hyaline everywhere except in the 

 marginal field and along a very narrow linear space next to the 

 principal nervure, between the base of the organ and the stigma, in 

 which parts they are opaque green ; the median vein gives off two 

 branches ; and the first branch of the discoidal is forked ; the stigma 

 is placed just after the origin of the third branch of the discoidal vein. 

 The wings are throughout hyaline, save the marginal area, which 

 is a little clouded with green ; the discoidal vein is three-branched. 



The front crest of the fore coxae armed with ten to eleven low 

 blunt tubercles, which become successively higher and sharper 

 towards the distal end of the joint ; and the external crest is quite 

 smooth ; the tibiae have ten to eleven teeth on the outer edge, and 

 14 on the inner; the superior margin of the femora is slightly 

 arcuate. The edges of lamellar margins of pronotum quite smooth. 



Total length 85 millims. ; length of pronotum 28, greatest breadth 

 of pronotum 13"25 ; breadth of primitive pronotum at dilatation 8 ; 

 length of abdomen 31+6 (last ventral segment) = 37 ; length of 

 tegmina 76, to stigma 20; width of tegmina 19, of their marginal 

 field 5-25 ; length of stigma 4, breadth of stigma 0*9 ; length of an- 

 tennae 50. 



Hab. The records of the British Museum state that the specimen 

 was received in a collection of insects from Malabar. 



Obs. The lamellar front margin of tegmina entire. 



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

 figs. 4, 4 a, 4 b.) 



<S 2 • Very closely allied to H. (R.) laticollis, Burm., from which 

 it differs in having the lamellar expansions of the pronotum abso- 

 lutely narrower, concave instead of straight postero-laterally, and not 

 extended quite so far towards the base of the segment, and in having 

 the whole inner surface of the fore coxce coloured jet-black, and the 

 hinder end of the prosternum and the mesosternum symmetrically 

 marked with the same colour. 



The anterior crest of the fore coxae armed with minute blunt 

 denticles and granules ; tibiae with eleven teeth ( 3 $ ) on the outer 

 edge, and 2 15, 3 14 on the inner. 



Sexual differences the same as in the allied species. 



Total length, 2 about 80 millims. ; length of pronotum, 2 27, 

 S 25*5, of which the anterior lobe is respectively, 2 8 and <$ 7 ; 

 greatest breadth of pronotum, $16, 3 15; breadth of primitive 

 pronotum at supracoxal dilatation, 2 9'5, 8 9 ; length of tegmina, 

 2 50, c? 64, breadth of tegmina, 2 20, 3 19'5, breadth of mar- 

 ginal field, $ 6, 3 5; length of fore coxa, $ 18, 3 17; femur, 



2 22, c? 20; of intermediate femur, $ 19, 3 18; tibia, $ 17, 



3 15; of posterior femur, $ 22*5, 3 21-5; tibia, 2 23-5, 3 23. 

 Hab. 2 . Australia (C. French) ; 3 , one of the islands in Torres 



Straits (MacFarlane). 



Obs. With the exception of the Indian H. (R.) tectiformis, which 



