1909] 



Caudell: New Species of Insects. 



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II. 



A NEW MANTIS FROM BRITISH GUIANA. 



By a. N. Caudell, U. S. Nat. Museum, Washington, D. C. 



Among some interesting Orthoptera recently determined 

 for Mr. C. W. Beebe, Curator of Birds in the New York Zoolog- 

 ical Park, and collected by him in British Guiana in February, 

 1908, was a species of Stagmomantis of which I can find no de- 

 scription. It may be characterized as follows: 



Stagmomantis hoorie, new species. (Fig. 40.) 



1 5,1$, British Guiana, near the Hoorie gold mine on 

 Hoorie Creek, a tributary of the Barama River. C. William 

 Beebe, collector. 



Stands intermediate in size between fraterna Sauss. & 

 Zehnt., and theophila Rehn and is allied to these forms. The 

 pronotum is slender and sparsely but distinctly armed laterally 

 with blunt teeth or tubercles. The anterior coxae are black 

 apically on the inner side and the adjacent part of the fore 

 femora is similarly colored; the inner face of the fore femora 



Fig. 40. Stagmomantis hoorie, new species. 



