1882.] J, Wood-Mason — On new and little-htown Mantodea. 31 



HiEEODULA STERNOSTICTA, 11. Sp. 



$ . Allied to S. vitrea, Stoll, from which it differs in being larger and 

 much more robust, in its much more opaque tegmina (which are finely 

 serrated on the anterior margin so as to serve as stridulating organs), in 

 having the fore tibiae armed with 12 and 15 instead of 11 and 14 teeth, 

 in having the basal half and the lower apical lobe of the fore coxae, 

 with the lower half of the base of the fore femora to a little beyond the 

 ungual groove, washed with red on the inside, in the prosternum and mesos- 

 ternum being symmetrically punctated with dark red-brown of the colour 

 of the lower apical lobe of the fore femora, and in the tegmina being 

 bordered in front with pale red-violet on the underside. 



Total length 85 millims. ; length of pronotum 30*5, of which the 

 anterior lobe is 9, breadth at supracoxal dilatation 10 ; length of tegmina 

 52, breadth 20'5, breadth of marginal field 6*5 ; length of fore coxa 19, 

 femur 24 ; of intermediate femur 20, tibia 18 ; of posterior femur 23*5, 

 tibia 25 ; breadth of head 12, length 10. 



The discoidal vein of the wings is 4 and 5-branched in the type 

 specimen, 3 and 4 in another, and 3 and 4 in a third, in which the anterior 

 branch of the three-branched wing is forked. 



Hab. Near Trinity Bay, Australia fO. French). Nine specimens, 

 3 adult females, and 3 nymphs of each sex. 



HiERODULA (RhOMBODERA) ATRICOXIS, Var. QRANDIS. 



9 . Difi'ers from typical Hierodula atricoxis, W.-M., in its larger 

 size, in the relatively narrower foliaceous expansions of its pronotum, and 

 in having the two anterior black spots of the prosternum squarish instead 

 of pyriform. 



Total length about 100 millims. ; length of pronotum 33, of which 

 the anterior lobe is 10, greatest breadth of pronotum 16, breadth of pri- 

 mitive pronotum at supracoxal dilatation 11*5 ; length of tegmina 62, 

 breadth of tegmina 235, breadth of marginal field 7*5 ; length of fore 

 coxa 21*5, femur 27; of intermediate femur 22*5, tibia 20-5; of posterior 

 femur 27, tibia 29-5. 



Hab. Murray Island, Torres Straits. 



HiERODTJLA (RhOMBODERA) FLAVA. 



Mantis Jiava^ De Haan, Orthopt. Orient, p. 68, <J ?, from Java. 

 Mantis macropsis, Giebel, Zeitschr. f. gesammt. naturwiss. 1861, p. Ill, from Banka. 

 Hierodula (RhomhoderaJ macropsis^ Saussure, M^l. Orthopt. 3me fasc. p. 218, fig. 

 18, ? ; Suppl. p. 408 ; et 4me fasc. p. 36, $, 



A specimen of the female of this very distinct species has been for- 

 warded to me from Bantam in Java by Mr. H. O. Forbes, 



