1882.] J. Wood-Mason — On new and lUtle-hnoivn Mantodea. 83 



tegmina and at the anterior margin of the wings, in which parts they 

 are semiopaque bright green ; posterior area of wings ornamented with 

 a large oval violet-fuscous subbasal blotch succeeded by four or five 

 concentric lines of the same colour, which are successively narrower and 

 less distinct from within outwards. 



$. Organs of flight much abbreviated. Tegmina semicoriaceous, 

 light bright green like the body and legs. Wings reduced nearly to a qua- 

 drant of a circle, the margin and the apex of their anterior area yellowish- 

 green, the rest of the anterior, together with the base of the posterior, area 

 dull wine-red, their posterior area bearing a huge violet-fuscous discal 

 blotch, between which and the outer margin the ground-colour is yellow 

 marked with a series of about four concentric violet-fuscous lines suc- 

 cessively decreasing in width and distinctness from within outwards. 



Total length $ 40, $ 42 millims. ; length of pronotum $ 11, 

 $ 12, width of pronotum at dilatation S 3, $ 35; length of tegmina 

 S 28, $ 1^, width of tegmina $ Q5, 2 5 ; length of wings 6 25, 

 ? 10-5. 



Hab. Kulu Valley, Kangra, in the N.-W. Himalayas, where it was 

 discovered in extraordinary numbers in 1880 by Mr. A. G. Young. 



POLTSPILOTA INSIGNIS, n. sp. 



$ . Head 1\ times as broad as long ; facial shield pentagonal, also 

 about 1^ times as broad as long; ocelli all oval and equal and rather close 

 together, the two posterior being not much further from one another than 

 either of them from the anterior ; antennae black, concolorous with the 

 head at base. 



Posterior lobe of pronotum about 3|^ times as long as the anterior, 

 strongly roof-shaped with a prominent but smooth raised dorsal ridge ; 

 supracoxal dilatation well-developed, rounded, on either side of which the 

 margins of the pronotum are tolerably finely denticulate for about half the 

 length of each lobe. 



Organs of flight very long, extending by about one-fourth of their length 

 beyond the extremity of the abdomen. Tegmina semicoriaceous, ferrugi- 

 nous-brown, the posterior margin and the anal gusset being alone membra- 

 nous and pale smoky or sordid ; marginal field with a large opaque black- 

 fuscous blotch at the base followed by another and by six (including the 

 apical one) fuscous-black transverse bands all commencing at the costa and 

 extending to the middle of the discoidal field, growing paler as they go, 

 and finally blending insensibly with the sordid of the posterior moiety j 

 anal gusset with its transverse veinlets pale and lined with hyaline. 



Wings dark smoky-quartz-coloured, with the longitudinal veins much 

 darker and the transverse veinlets much paler and very narrowly lined with 



