28 J. Wood-Mason — On new and little-known Mantodea. [No. 1, 



of abdomen 24 ; of fore coxa 12 5, of femur 15, of its unarmed part 8 ; of 

 intermediate femur 15, tibia 125 ; of posterior femur 16"3, tibia 163. 



The fore tibiae are armed with 7 — 14 teeth. 



The legs are all banded and the apex of the fore femur is dark brown 

 on the inner face, as in the female. 



HiEEODULA (SpHODROPODA) QUINQUEDENS. 



Mantis 5-clens, MacLeay, King's Survey. 



Sierodula qui)iquedens, Mel. Orthopt. 4me fasc. p. 42, $ . 



This curious species unquestionably belongs to the section Spliodro- 

 poda as by Stal defined ; being provided with a marginal series of tubercles 

 on the under surface of the anterior lobe of the pronotum, as well as with 

 a prseacetabular spine, and having the margins of the outer face of the fore 

 femora granulated. The form and colouring of the fore coxae are remark- 

 able : these are broadly bevelled rather than grooved at the upper margin 

 of their inner face, and the bevelled edge is rich orange-coloured marked 

 with white or lighter vertical stripes, the prolonged bases of the margi- 

 nal spines, the rest of the surface being pale violet. The colours of the 

 tegmina and wings are no less remarkable, the latter being hyaline yellow, 

 but the former opaque reddish brown varied with yellow of tlie colour of the 

 stigma throughout except on the under side of the marginal field, which 

 is red-violet broadly bordered externally with black. 



The front edge of the tegmina is denticulate, but the four posterior 

 femora are devoid of all traces of a lateral ridge ; as in S. (S.) dentifrons, 

 Stal. 



Hab. Trinity Bay and the northern territoiy of South Australia 

 (O. French), 



HiERODrLA (Sphodromantis) btcarinata. 



Eierodula licarinata, Saussure, Bull. Ent. Suisse, vol. iii, 1869, p. 68, ,J ? , et Mel 

 Orthopt. 3me fasc. 1871, p. 222, pi. 5, fig. 22, ? . 



3Iantis Jcersteni, Gerstaecker, Arch, f. Naturg. 1869, p. 209, ^, et v. d. Decken's 

 Reisen in Ost- Africa 2te Band 2te Abth., 1873, p. 13. 



I have a large series of both sexes of this species from the Cameroon 

 Mountains, Somali Land, South Africa, and Sierra Leone. 



Like the closely allied H. gastrica, Stal, this species has the front 

 edge of the tegmina strongly toothed* so as to serve as a stridulating 

 organ, and a strong ridge on the apical half of the upper or posterior 

 face of each of the posterior femora, by which doubtless the toothed edge 



* See Fig. 2 of my memoir ' On the Presence of a Stridulating Apparatus in 

 certain Mantidse,' in Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 263 ct seq. 



