30 J. Wood-Mason — On new and little-lcnown Mantodea. [No. 1, 



HiERODULA (Spiiodromantis) muta, n. sp. 

 S, Of small or moderate size, green. 



Facial shield broader than long, 2-4 carinate, the two lateral carinse 

 ohsolescent. Pronotum of about the same shape and proportions as in 

 H. trimacula^ but with the margins more narrowly rounded at the dilata- 

 tion, and very distinctly denticulate nearly to the base of the posterior 

 lobe. 



Organs of flight extending little if at all beyond the extremity of the 

 abdomen, with the apex of their anterior area sharply pointed. The 

 tegmina coriaceous with the posterior margin broadly, and the anal 

 area wholly, membranous ; their anterior edge appearing indistinctly 

 and irregularly jagged under a lens ; their stigma elongate, narrow, with a 

 brown point at either end. Wings hyaline a little obscured with greenish 

 along the front margin and at the very apex, where, also, the transverse 

 venulation is denser ; their discoidal vein two-branched on one side and 

 three on the other. 



Fore coxa armed on the upper crest with numerous very small 

 teeth (five or six of which, a little larger than the rest, are yellow-based, 

 and arise from the inner face), devoid of the usual marginal groove, but 

 ornamented on the inner face with two large subquadrate or subrotundate 

 depressed yellow spots extending from the edge of the upper crest for 

 more than two-thirds of the distance towards the lower margin, separated 

 from one another by a large oblong jet-black spot about 1^ times as large 

 as either of them, and each bounded at its free end by a jet-black line, and 

 •witli a very much smaller yellow spot touching the black encircling line 

 of the basal one of the large spots ; posterior femora not ridged on their 

 ■upper or posterior faces, as in the stridulating species. The fore tibiae 

 are armed in the outer side with 10 (there are only 8 and a rudiment on 

 one tibia, owing probably to an injury received during larval life), and on 

 the inner with 13 teeth. 



Total length 57 millims. ; length of head 6*5, breadth of head 8 ; 

 length of pronotum 19, of which the anterior lobe is 6, breadth of pronotum 

 at dilatation, 6 ; length of tegmina 36, breadth of tegmina 10, breadth 

 of marginal field 3 ; length of wings 31 ; of fore coxa 13, femur 165 ; 

 of intermediate femur, 16, tibia 13*5 ; of posterior femur 20, tibia 20'5. 

 Hab. Cameroon Mountains, West Africa. 



HiERODULA SIMTTLACRITM. 

 Mantis simulacrum, Fabr., Ent. Syst. vol. ii, 21, 34 



Burm., Handb. d. Entom, vol. ii, p. 536. 



Sierodula simulacrum^ Saussure, M^l. Orthopt. 3me fasc. p. 225, fig., 23, 5 , 23 $ , 

 A specimen of the female has been received from Mr. H. O. Forbes 

 from Bantam in Java. 



