242 J. Wood-Mason — Sync2:>sis of the Species of Clioeradodis. [No. 3, 



Fig.ll, ?. Fig. 10, ^. 



matal spot of tlie tegmina ; and tlie antero-lateral margins of the prono- 

 tal lamellae are arcuate or convex, esj)ecially in the female. 



Hab. 5 ^,5 2, Ecuador, in the collection of the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta; Peru (?, Stal) ; Cayenne (2, Serville et Stal) ; Surinam 

 ( ^ , SaiLssure) . 



6. Chceradodis stalii. 

 "Wood-Mason, 1. c. p. 83, <J $ . 



Differs from the preceding in the shape of the blotch (which is 

 pointed at both ends and commences in the ungual groove, and on either 

 side of which the femur is pale luteous-yellow instead of being clouded with 

 fuscous) ; in being without a fuscous speck at the distal end of the 



Fig. 13, $ . Fig. 12, $ . 



stigma ; in its shorter and differently shaped facial shield ; and in having 

 the antero-lateral margins sinuous-concave and the lateral angles of the 

 pronotal expansions more broadly rounded off. 



Hab. 1 ^ , 4 ? , Ecuador, in the Museums of Calcutta and Oxford. 



7. Ch(eeadodis ehomboidea. 



Mantis rhomhoidea, Stoll, Spectres et Mantes, pi. xi, fig. 45, cf • 

 Chceradodis rhomhoidea, Wood-Mason, 1. c. p. 84, c? . 



A male insect from Para, in the British Museum, agrees neither with 

 Saussure's description (loc. supra cit. p. 18), nor with any of the speci- 



