84 J. Wood-Mason — Synopsis of tlie Species ofChoeradodis. 



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

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

 the aiitero-lateral margins and the lateral angles of the pronotal expan- 

 sions sinuous-concave and more broadly rounded off respectively. 



Hab. 1 $ , 4i ?, Ecuador (BucJcley), in the collection of the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta. 



6. CnOERADODIS EHOMBOIDEA. 

 Mantis rJiomloidea, Stoll, Spectres et Mantes, pi. xi, fig. 45, $ , 

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

 Saussure's description {loo. supra cit. p. 18), nor with any of the specimens 

 in the Indian Museum ; it more nearly approaches StoU's figure, agreeing 

 therewith in the points in which it differs from them. 



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 lamella; have no posterior 

 angles. 



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. 



(y3 ) Tlie hlotch on tlie %ipper lialf of the joint (Indian.) 

 7. Choeradodis sqxjilla. 

 ? Mantis cancellata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. II, 1793, p. 18. 



Choeradodis squilla, Saussure, Mel. Orthopt. t, i, Sme fasc. p. 161, pi. iv, figs. 3, 

 3a, $ et nymph. 



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



Hab. India generally, from Ceylon ( <f et nymph, Saussure ; larva, 

 in I. M. Calc.) ; Madras ( $ , Lucas) ; Central India (in coll Hop. Oxon.) ; 

 to the banks of the Killing River, in the N. Khasi Hills, on the N. E. 

 Frontier (nymph, A. W. Ghennell) . 



Obs. A specimen of this species in the British Mviseum is errone- 

 ously marked " Brazil." 



