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Fam.— MANTIDJE. 



Gen. — Mantis, L. 

 Mantis religiosa, L. 



Mesopotamia : Amara, nov. 1917, 2 J , 3 ? ; Kizil Robat, north-east of 

 .Baghdad, 1^, 1$; Masharra Canal, Amara, 8-6-18, 1$. 



Gen. — Ikis, Sauss. 



Iris oratoria, L. 



Mesopotamia : Kut el Amara, R. Tigris, 9-8-18, 1 J ; Shahroban, R. 

 -Diala, 30-7-18, Id". 



Gen. — FiscHERiA, Sauss. 



Fischeria fasciata, Thunb. 



Mantis fasciata, Thimberg, 1815, Ac. Petersb. V., p. 292 ; Fischeria 

 Jaciata, Giglio-Tos, 1916, Bull Soc. ent. it. XLVII [1915], p. 21 ; Fischeria 

 baetica, Rambur, 1839, Faune And. II, p. 19, pi. 1, fig. 1,2. 



Mesopotamia: Amara, 11 and 20-9-18, 1(^,2$ ; — Kut el Amara, R. Tigris, 

 ■9-8-18, 2$. 



Three male specimens, collected by Mr. P. A. Buxton, are very much larger 

 than Spanish examples (length of body, 68 mm.; length of pronot., 18 mm.: 

 length of tegmen, 47 mm.); they are quite similar to these in everj other 

 a-espect but might be considered as a local race. 



Gen. — BoLivARiA, Stal. 

 Bolivaria brachyptera, Pall. 

 Persia, Qazvin, sept. 1919, 2 2 . 



Gen. — Emptjsa, Illiger. 



Empusa egena, Charp. 



Mesopotamia: Amara, R. Tigris, April 1918, 1^ ; — Masharra, 20-3-18 

 1 young $. 



Empusa uvarovi, n. sp. 

 (Kg. 17). 



Types : — One male from Mesopotamia, Amara, on Alhagi, margin of dry 

 marsh (W. E. Evans, 12-9-18). — One female, same locality (P. A. Buxton, 

 10-9-1918). 



Very much like E. egena Charp., but smaller. Male with conical process of ver- 

 tex rather short, rounded above, shghtly furcate at the apex ; prothorax slender 

 weakly denticulated anteriorly, its posterior part almost unarmed. Elytra trans- 

 parent, tinted with greenish near the anterior border and the apex ; marginal 

 iield opaque, green with the extreme border yellow (in life wholly green ?) and a 

 narrow yellow band (in life green ?) along the humeral vein, extending from 

 b)ase to the stigma which is yellow ; median vein furcate on the stigma, its 

 superior branch furcate ; discoidal vein trifurcate. Wings transparent, green- 

 ish near the apex ; discoidal vein furcate. Legs green banded with yellowish 

 •(in life wholly green ?) ; lamellar expansions of the femora smaller than in 

 E. egena, subtriangular. Female with process of vertex rather short, divided 

 in two almost equal parts, the apical one rounded above, canaliculate beneath. 



