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Nauphoeta circumvagans Bkun. 

 Nauphoeta kevigata ? Brun.!, Proc. U. S. 2sat. Mus., XII. 194. 



The other three immature female .specimen.s referred to l)y Briiner as prob- 

 ably belonging here (uneler the .synunymical name N. Iccvigata Pal.) come 

 from Charle.s Island, and from their immaturity must be placed here with some 

 doubt, though by the color of the head and pronotum, which are uniformly 

 dark castaneous, and the structure of the terminal parts of the abdomen, it 

 agrees completely with this species and diflers from the piecediug. Explora- 

 tions U. S. Fish Commission, 1888. 



Leucophaea surinamensis (Linn ) 



PancMora surinamensis Butl., Proc. Zoul. Lend., 1877, p. 87. 

 LeucoptuLa surinamensis Brun.!, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII. 194. 



Butler first recorded this species from the Galapagos, his specimens coming 

 from Charles Island. The specimens recorded by Bruner (Explorations U. S. 

 Fish Commis.sion, 1888) come from both Charles and Chatham Islands; while 

 Dr. Baur also obtained two immature specimens at Chatham Island. 



MANTIDiE. 

 Subfamily MANTIN^. 



GALAPAGIA, gen nov. 



Allied to Musonia Stal. Body slender subfiliform, the abdomen moderately 

 stout. Posterior ridge of head with a slight rounded appressed elevation on 

 either side, the lateral lobes rising and embracing the prominent, completely 

 lateral eyes ; antenna? filiform. Anterior lobe of the i^ronotam half as long as 

 the posterior lobe, and equal in length to either the meso- or the metanotum, 

 expanded somewhat at base, broadly rounded, subtruncate and depressed at apex, 

 the sides parallel in the middle half. Legs slender, feebly setulose, the fore 

 coxa; provided at apex on either side with a slight triangular elevated lobe ; fore 

 femora slender, mesiall}^ ampliate, more than twice as long as the tibia?, with 

 tour spines on the exterior margin all l^eyond the middle, two or three inferior 

 partly recumbent spines just beyond the middle, and an irregular series of 

 seven or eight on the interior margin; fore tibiae of normal form with two 

 spines beneath on the exterior margin apically and six on the interior margin, 

 three large and tiiree small, besides the apical spur ; first tar.sal joint of fore 

 legs much longer than the tibia:, of tlic other legs and especially of the hind 



