1882.] J. Wood-Mason — On new and little-hnoivn Mantodea. 25 



somite, thin-coriaceous, opaque, light yellowish green, the anal gusset alone 

 membranous and semihyaline. Wings reaching to a little beyond the end of 

 the 3rd abdominal somite reduced nearly to a quadrant of a circle, their 

 anal emargination almost none, their anterior area semicoriaceous, yellow, 

 their posterior area at the base and along the abdominal margin membra- 

 nous and milky like the anal gusset of the tegmina, ornamented in the 

 middle by a large violet-brown metallic blotch (on which the veins are 

 broadly margined with paler and yellower brown), at the basal end of which 

 are 3 or 4 small opaque yellowish spots on transverse veinlets, and between 

 which and the outer margin are alternate arcs of violet-brown and opaque 

 yellow. 



Total length 47 millims. ; length of pronotum 11 ; of tegmina 16 ; of 

 wings 12-5. 



Hab. South Africa (J". P. Mansel Weale). 



Dtsaules longicollis. 



Stal, Syst. Mant., 1877, p. 18, $ non $, from Bengal. 



$ . Wings and tegmina, abbreviated, semiopaque ; the latter scarcely 

 longer than tlie pronotum, yellowish horny with the meshes all faintly 

 smoky or sordid, and with the apex and a discoidal punctular spot fuscous ; 

 the former with the anal emargination very slight and shallow and obtuse- 

 angled, with the anterior area reddish-horny tipped with fuscous, and the 

 posterior bright yellow and bearing near the base a large oval dark violet- 

 fuscous patch, which is succeeded by a number of concentric lines of the 

 same colour extending to and becoming successively closer and closer to- 

 gether towards the outer margin, where they unite to form with the fuscous 

 apex a fuscous outer border decreasing from the apex to the posterior angle 

 of the organs. 



Total length 56 millims. ; length of pronotum 18 ; of tegmina 19, 

 width of tegmina 6 ; length of wings 15. 



^ . 2 . Anterior femora marked on the inside just in front of the 

 ungual groove by a small round black spot. 



Hab. $ ? Kulu, Kangra, in the N.-W. Himalayas and Bengal 

 (Stdl). 



Var. BEEYiPENNis. $. Organs of flight more abbreviated ; the tegmina 

 being shorter than the pronotum, and the wings having the shape of a 

 quadrant of a circle with the anal emargination less evident. 



Length of pronotum 1875, of tegmina 15 5, and of wings 12*5 millims. 



Hab. Bangalore, Mysore, S. India : obtained by a soldier of H. M.'s 

 4!5th Kegt., whom I formerly employed to collect for the Museum. 



The eyes in all specimens of the species are furnished near the summit 

 with a very minute and smooth granule, or blind spot, overlooked by Stal. 



