26 J. Wood-Mason — On new and little-hnomn Maufcodea. [No. 1, 



Subfamily MANTID^. 



GONTPETA ATJTHiEMON, n. Sp. 



?. Body and appendages pale fleshy brown or earth-coloured thickly 

 punctulated and naarbled with darker ; the still darker markings of the 

 tegmina and legs of a rich warm vandyke-brown, arranged on the hitter 

 in rings, especially on their two terminal divisions ; postacetabular portion 

 of the prosternum, all but the anterior margin of the mesosternum, and the 

 intermediate coxae internally, jet-black. 



Facial shield crescentic, about thrice as broad at its anterior or inferior 

 margin as it is long. Pronotum strongly dilated at the insertion of the 

 fore legs, whence it narrows to either end, its setulose margins scarcely 

 denticulated and slightly hollowed out posteriorly ; the disc of its anterior 

 lobe convex, raised into a prominent trilobed obcordiform boss, that of its 

 posterior lobe bearing an indistinct raised median longitudinal line, on 

 either side of which is a row of smooth and very low rounded tubercles 

 arranged in four pairs, of which the one next to the posterior margin of the 

 somite is the most prominent, coloured dark brown, and separated from 

 those in front by a transverse depression. 



Tegmina subcoriaceous, abbreviated, about 2^ times as long as the 

 pronotum, not reaching to the extremity of the abdomen, their marginal 

 field spotted longitudinally with rich dark brown, their veins and long 

 linear stigma whity-brown, the former spotted and streaked with dark 

 brown, their membrane concolorous with the body and legs, their discoidal 

 field marked across the middle of its length with a large spot or band 

 narrower at each end and broader in the middle, their posterior area or 

 anal gusset with the meshes brown and the net-work whity-brown, their 

 interior radial vein and the first branch of the ulnar both simple and un- 

 divided, and the anal and axillary veins anastomosed very close to the 

 posterior margin. Wings semiopaque, dull red, with the outer margin of 

 both areas rather narrowly margined with fuscous, on which the transverse 

 veins are whity-brown indistinctly edged with subhyaline ; anterior margin 

 having the veins towards the apex streaked with darker and the membrane 

 paler and consequently presenting a spotted appearance ; anal emargination 

 distinct, the apex of the posterior area reaching the level of that of the 

 anterior. 



Legs all annulated with bands of brown punctulations, the anterior 

 ones externally ; with the first joint of the tarsus in all longer than the 

 rest taken together. Anterior tibiae more richly (almost black) banded 

 internally than externally, armed below in the outer edge with 11 and on 

 the inner with 9 spines exclusive in each case of the terminal claw ; anterior 



