32 J. Woocl-Mason — On new and liWe-hwwn Mantodea. [No. 1, 



Tbo fore margin o£ the tegmina is minutely and irregularly jagged, 

 but not modified to serve as a stridulating organ, as in some of the other 

 Eastern species of the same section. 



HiERODULA (KhOMBODERa) BASALIS. 



Mantis basalts, De Haan, Orthopt. Orient, p. 67 9 • 



Hierodula (Rliomhodera) basalts, Saussure, Mel. Orthopt. 4 me fasc. p. 35, fig. 6, 

 7, ? , from Java and Malacca. 



Three fine specimens of the female were recently obtained near Mergui 

 by Dr. J. Anderson, all having the stigma encircled with rich dark brown. 

 From the anal orifice of one of them, there project the terminal coils of 

 two specimens of a species of Gordius measuring five and eight inches 

 in length respectively. 



The fore margin of the tegmina is not serrated. 



Mantis, Linn., Sauss. 



All the species furnished with 9 spines (African) on the outer edge 

 of the fore tibiae are distinguished from those (European, Asiatic, and 

 African) with only 7 by having marginal denticles on the under surface 

 of the anterior lobe of the pronotum, as in Sphodropoda and Sphodromantis, 

 sections of Hierodula. 



The following species belongs to this category :-^ 



Mantis callieera, n. sp. 



? . Pronotum much slenderer than in M. pia, Serville, and more 

 suddenly narrowed behind the insertion of the fore legs. 



Anterior coxae armed on the upper crest with numerous minute den- 

 ticles, and ornamented on the inside with four large highly polished convex 

 oval callosities (red or yellow in the living insect) connected with the 

 bases of as many minute spines springing from the side of the crest ; femora 

 without black marks ; tibiae armed with 9 spines on the outer edge and 13 

 on the inner in one specimen and with 8 to 9 and 12 to 13 in the other. 



Total length about 62 millims. ; of pronotum 2075, of which the 

 posterior lobe is 15, width of pronotum at dilatation 5*25 ; length of 

 tegmina 47 ; of fore coxa 14, femur 18 ; of intermediate femur 14, tibia 11 ; 

 of posterior femur 17*5, tibia 17'5. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope, — two specimens. 



Iris orientalis, n. sp. 



d*. $. Much slenderer than I. oratoria, Linn., from which it also 

 differs in being without a trace of talc-like fenestrae in the anterior area 

 of the wings. 



$ . Organs of flight long, very delicately clouded with green and 

 almost perfectly hyaline everywhere except in the marginal field of the 



