FAM. MAN riD.l'. 



7 



I. Genus CARDIOPTERA, Burmeister 



Cardioptera. Burmeister. Ilandli. lOnl. Hd. 2. Ahlli. 2. I'l. i, p. 54(j (i83<S). 



Characters. — ["orni wuli Inn'j; almost enlirel\' hyaline le.u'inina and wings in the male, female 

 with short chieflv opaque termina and wings. V'ertex hardly arcuate and not dislmctly elevated above 

 the eyes; ocelli of the male large, placed close together in a triangle, of the female less conspicuous; 

 facial shield strongly transverse, obtuse-augulate dorsally ; eyes moderately prominent; antenna? of the 

 male serrate, of the female sniiple. l^ronotum of the male with the shatt slender in the middle, widen- 

 ing anteriorh and posteriorly, collar rather heavy, the supracoxal tlilation but little wider than the 

 collar, margins of the collar with obsc^lete dentiform tubercles, no median carina present: of the female 

 short with the posterior portion narrowed, the collar and supracoxal dilation broad, lateral margins 

 with lather strong teeth. Tegmina ot the male elongate, reaching beyond the apex of the abdomen, 

 subequal. apex rather narrowly r(}unded, liyaline except for an iniuscate area along the ])rinci])al veins; 

 of the female short, ovate, no longer than the abdomen, opaque, principal veins placed nearly in the 

 middle of the tegmen. Wings of the male ample, h^•aline except for a narrow costal section; of the 

 female slightly shorter than the tegmina, with the transverse nervures banded with color. Abdomen 

 slender, subfusiform in the male, obese, broad and ovate in the female; subgenital plate of the male 

 trigonal. .Anterior liml)s moderately robust, the coxae with the margins furnished with curved claw-like 

 spines, the internal taccs providetl with numerous low callosities: femora with tliree discoidal spines, 

 the lateral face with six spines, internal face with fifteen spines; tibije (without apical claw) about half 

 the femoral length. Median and posterior limbs slender and simple asicie from a small triangular lobe 

 placed immediate!}' before the apex of the posterior femora on the interno- ventral margin; tibi;e of the 

 male terete, the median and posterior limbs of the same sex strongh" pilose. 



Geographical distribution of species. — A single species is known from the Xeotropical 



region. 



I. C. hi-achyptera, Burmeister, Handb. Va\\.. V>(\. 2. .Abth. j. Pt. i, p. 041 Bra^^il, Guiana. 

 (I.S38) {Mantis). — Plate, Fig. I . 



Mantis sublobatd. S&cviWe, Hist. Nat. Ins. Orth. ]). iSo ( iSSg) ; Charpen- 

 tier. Orth. Daser, et Depicta, t. 37 1184,^1. 

 Ma/i/is pilipes, Serville, Hist. Nat. Ins. Orth. y. 192 (iSSg". (Based on o ). 



2. Genus OXYOPSIS, Caudell 



Oxyops. Saussure-. Mitt. Schweiz. Eut. Ges. \'ol. 3, pj). 5b, Oh (i-'^ög) (not of Schönherr, iJ!2Ö). 

 Oxyopsis. Caudell, jnurn. New York l'.nt. Soc. X'ol. 12, p. 184 (1904). 



Characters. — b'orm with elongate almost entirely hyaline tegmina and wings in the male; 

 females with moderately short tegmina. wings hyaline irregularly barred with color. Head trigonal, the 

 eyes angulate or produced laterally: vertex haidh' elevated above the eyes and usually straight; ocelli 

 of the male huge and placed in a subequal triangle, of the female small and placed in a depressed 

 triangle: facial shield strongl\' transverse, the dorsal margin with a median truncate section: antenna- 

 of the male subserrate, of the female simple. Pronotum with the shaft elongate, supracoxal dilation 

 moderately prominent, collar moderatel\' tapering: anterior margin rounded, lateral margins serrate or 



