1882.1 J. Wood-Mason — On new and little-Jcnown Mantodea. 35 



Oro-ans of fliglit when closed not extending further than the 8th abdo- 

 minal somite, hyaline with horn-coloured (? green in the living insect) 

 veins everywhere except in the marginal field of the tegmina (which is 

 coriaceous opaque and bright-green margined posteriorly along and behind 

 the principal vein with semiopaque horn-brown (? green) co.ncolorous with 

 the veitis and shining stigma), and at the anterior margin of the wings, 

 which is obscured with horn -brown (? green). 



The cerci are long and compressed from the middle of their length to 

 the tip, in both sexes, but especially in this sex, in which they are narrowly 

 foliaceous at the extremity. 



Total length 97 millims. ; length of pronotum 35' 5, of which the pos- 

 terior lobe is 29 ; length of head 5, width of head 8*5 ; length of tegmina 

 51 ; length of fore coxa 16, femur 18*5 ; of intermediate femur 19, tibia 

 17 ; of posterior femur 25, tibia 25. 



The above description has been drawn up from a specimen captured by 

 any native collector between Moulmein and Meetan in 1877. 



Another specimen from Nazeerah measures pronotum 33'5 and tegmina 

 48, and a third, obtained by Mr. S. E. Peal in the Sibsagar district, Assam, 

 pronotum 34 and tegmina 50 5 millims. 



Specimens of the female differ a good deal in the degree of develop- 

 ment of the organs of flight, two specimens from Moulmein measuring — 

 total length about 100 — 105 millims. ; length of pronotum 37*75- 39, 

 of which the posterior lobe is 305 — 31-5 ; length of head 675 — 7, width 

 of head 10 — 10 ; length of tegmina 51*5 — 55*5, width of tegmina 11 — 11, 

 of marginal field 3 — 3 ; length of fore coxa 19-25 — 20, femur 21 — 21-75 ; 

 of intermediate femur 20 — 20-5, tibia 19 — 205 ; of posterior femur 26 — 27, 

 tibia 29 — 31 ; one from the Himalayas — total length 110 millims. ; length 

 of pronotum 42, of which the posterior lobe is 34 ; length of head 7-5, 

 breadth of head 10' 5 ; length of tegmina 55 ; of fore coxa 21, femur 24 ; 

 of intermediate femur 23, tibia 21 ; of posterior femur 30, tibia 33 ; one 

 from Sibsagar — total length 108 millims. ; of pronotum 42, of which the 

 posterior lobe is 34 ; length of head 7, breadth of head 10 5 ; length of 

 tegmina 40 ; of fore coxa 21-5, femur 24 ; of intermediate femur 22-5, 

 tibia 21'25 ; of posterior femur 29 5, tibia 32 ; and the specimen described 

 by Stal having the tegmina scarcely longer than the pronotum. 



Hab. One male from the banks of the Houngdarau, on the road from 

 Moulmein to Meetan, Upper Tenasserim ; another from Nazeerah (Dr. 

 Foster), and a third from Sibsagar {S. E. Peal), Assam. Two females 

 from Moulmein {Captain Hood), a third from the 'Himalayas,' belonging 

 in all probability to the Asiatic Society's collection, and a fourth from 

 Aideo, Sibsagar {S. E. Feal). 



