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V. — On new and little-lcnown Mantodea. — By J. Wood-Mason. 



(Read August 2nd, 1882.) 



Subfamily AMOKPHOSCELIDiE, Stal. 



Amoephoscelis annulicobnis. 



stal, Oefersigt af Kongi. Vetenskaps-Akad. forhand. Stockholm, 1873, p. 401. 



I received an imperfect spirit specimen of this small but remarkable 

 form several years ago from Nazeerah, Assam ; and, while I was in Eng- 

 land on furlough in 1877-79, Professor Westvvood presented me with a 

 dried female which, although also defective in many respects, has those 

 parts present that in the Assam insect are absent, and which enables me to 

 complete Stal's somewhat imperfect diagnosis drawn up from a specimen 

 that had lost its abdomen. This part is long and almost linear, tapering 

 very slightly and gradually towards the extremity, which extends a short 

 distance beyond the closed organs of flight ; its supra-anal plate is trian- 

 gular with the sides slightly concave, as long as it is broad at the base, and 

 carinate ; and the cerci are racket- shaped, the basal joints being cylindri- 

 cal, the two penultimate ones compressed and subfoliaceous, and tlie last 

 expanded into a great broadly-oval plate. The anterior tibijB have the 

 tarsus inserted rather nearer to the base than to the apex, although from 

 Stal's desciiption — " tarsis anticis ante medium tibiarum insertis" — one 

 would have expected to find the reverse of this to be the case. 



Subfamily EREMOPHILID.E. 



CH(ERAD0DIS BliUNNERI, n. sp. 



9. Closely allied to Ch. rliomhicollis, Latr , and Gh. Sermllei, W.-M., 

 differing from both in the size, shape, and position of the femoral blotch 

 (which is nearly thrice as long as broad, extends rather further in front 

 of the ungual groove than it does behind it, and is followed by four black 

 puncta arranged along the lower margin of the joint at the bases of alter- 

 nate spines), and in having the posterior margin of the pronotum slightly 

 convex instead of concave ; from the former in its much narrower and 

 from the latter in its rather broader tegmina ; and from the latter in the 

 upper margin of its fore femora being coarsely granulated, and sinuous 

 in.'itead of straight, in which latter respect it approaches the former. 



Hab. Santa Fe de Bogota, New Granada. The nymph from Bogota 

 assigned by me (J. A. S. B., 1880, Vol. XLIX, pt. II, p. 83) with hesi- 

 tation to Gh. rhomhicollis agrees perfectly with the specimen briefly de- 

 scribed above in the form and colouring of the fore femora and without 

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