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The anterior crest of the fore coxae is armed with eight bluntish 

 spiniform tubercles, between some of which are one or two minuter 

 ones ; the right fore tibia has fifteen teeth on each edge ; the four 

 posterior legs are wanting. 



Total length about 32 millims. ; length of pronotum 7'6 ; breadth 

 of pronotum at supracoxal dilatation 4*3, at constriction behind dila- 

 tation 2-6 ; length of tegmina 26 ; length of abdomen 14, breadth 

 of abdomen 8'5. 



Hab. Ceylon. Communicated by Mr. F. Moore. There is also 

 a specimen in the Hopeian collection at Oxford. 



Hymenopus bicornis. 



Mantis bicornis, Stoll, Spectres et Mantes, 1 787, pi. xi. figs. 44 

 ( $ ), 44 a (nymph). 



Mantis coronata, Olivier, Encyl. Meth. 1/92, Insectes, t. vii. 

 p. 638. 



Empusa coronata, Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. t. iii. p. 91. 



Hymenopa coronata, Serville, Revue, p. 19. no. 1, et Hist. Nat. 

 desOrthopt. 1839, p. 163 $. 



Hymenopus coronatus, Burm. Handb. d. Entom. 1839, vol. ii. 

 p. 549. 



Hymenopus bicornis, Saussure, Mel. Orthopt. i. fasc. 3, p. 291. 



The larvae and nymphs, at any rate, of this species simulate blos- 

 soms, some specimens being rose-pink, others of a beautiful wax- 

 white colour. The thighs of the four posterior pairs of legs are ex- 

 panded into huge broad pear-shaped plates ; so that (according to 

 Mr. S. E. Peal, who has discovered the species in Assam, many 

 hundreds of miles from any of its hitherto recorded habitats) the 

 immature insect when seated on a twig with thorax and abdomen 

 raised at right angles to one another, with the fore legs drawn up 

 out of sight beneath the thorax, and with the four expanded thighs 

 spread out two on each side, the tarsi being brought to one spot, 

 presents in form as well as in colour a most perfect and deceptive 

 resemblance to a flower. The small Mantis (exactly resembling a 

 pink orchis-flower) which, according to Mr. Wallace, was shown to 

 Sir Charles Dilke in Java, and was said to attract and devour butter- 

 flies, probably belongs to the same species. 



Hab. Sibsagar, Assam ( S. E. Peal) ; Moluccas {Serville) ; Sunda 

 Isles. The perfect insect is represented in one of the beautiful 

 sketches of foliage and flowers made by Miss North in Java. 



Parablepharis kuheii. 



Blepharis kuhlii, De Haan, Orthopt. Orient, p. 93, tab. 18. 

 fig. 3, ? . 



Parablepharis kuhlii, Saussure, Bull. Entom. Suisse, iii. p. 223 

 (1870); id. Mel. Orthopt. i. 1871, fasc. 3, p. 320, $ . 



Hab. Java (De Haan); " les Indes Orientales? " (Saussure). A 

 larva has been obtained by Mr. A. W. Chennell, of the Topographical 

 Survey of India, in the Naga Hills, Assam. 



