1884.] J. Wood-Mason — Synopsis of the Species 0/ Clioeradodis. 243 



mens in the Indian Museum ; it more nearly approaches Stoll's figure, 

 agreeing therewith in the points in which it differs from the former. 



The blotch commences in the ungual groove, thence extending as far 

 along the femur as in the preceding four species, but it is not followed 

 by a marginal row of black points. The pronotal lamellae have no poste- 

 rior angles, their postero-lateral margins dwindling away to nothing 

 posteriorly. 



Hab. $ , Para, in the collection of the British Museum. A nymph, 

 from Ega, in the same collection, probably also belongs to this species. 



This species is nearest allied to Ch. laticollis. 



{p.) The hlotch on the upper half of the joint (Indian). 



8. CH(ERAD0DIS cancellata. 



Mantis cancellata, Fabr., Ent. Syst. ii, 1793, p. 18. 



Chceradodis squilla, Lucas, Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr. 5 ser. ii, 1872, p. 32, 2 • 



Wood-Mason, 1. c. p. 48 (ex parte) . 



Pronotum dissimilar in the sexes, being much less dilated in the 

 male than in the female ; its antero-lateral and postero-lateral margins 

 not forming an angle at their junction in the female. 



Femoral blotch narrower, confined to the foliaceous crest of the 

 joint, and bordered below by a band of enamel-like bright emerald-green. 



In the shape and extent of the pronotal expansions, the male of this 

 species much resembles the same sex of Chceradodis rhomhoidea, differing, 

 however, strikingly therefrom in its much shorter pronotum. The female 

 ajDproaches and differs from those of GUcEvadodis rhombicollis and its 

 allies in the same respects. 



Hab. India (Fahricius) generally, from Ceylon, through Madras and 

 Central India (? in coll. Hop. Oxon.), to the banks of the Killing River 

 on the N. E. Frontier (nymph [Fig. 1] in coll. Ind. Mus. Calc.) 



Ohs. A specimen of this species in the British Museum is errone- 

 ously labelled " Brazil." 



9. Chceradodis squilla. 



Chceradodis squilla, Saussnre, Mel. Orthopt. fc. i, 3me fasc. p. 161, pi. iv, fig. 3, 

 3a, cf et nymph. 



? Lucas, Ann. Entom. Soc. Fr. 5 ser. t. ii, 1872, p. 32, 9 . 



Wood-Mason, 1. c. p. 84 (ex parte) . 



Pronotum similar in the sexes, its postcro-latei-al foi-ming with its 

 antero-lateral margin a distinct angle in both ; that of the male differing 

 from that of the female only in being rather less expanded, and conse- 

 quently less convex, postero-laterally. 



Femoral blotch broader, extending on to the primitive femur up to 

 the inner end of the unequal groove and not bordered with green. 



