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(MM'I lOl'TJ- RA 



joint of ihe larsi quite lon^. Abdomen suhequal, attenuate- in the male, I'usilorm, JejiiessfMl in tlie 

 female; cerci ot male distinclh' articulate, composed of numerous segments; supra-anal j)late of both 

 sexes transverse. 



Type of the genus : P . jlavoguttata , Saussure (not of Serville) = seiricoruis , Kirbv. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Six species Irom the Neotropical region are known 

 to belong to this genus. 



1. P. ßavogiiltata (Serville), Hist. Xat. liis. Orth. p. i83 (1839) (Mantis). Cayenne. 



2. P. sei'riconiis, Kirby, S\n. Ciat. Orth. \'ol. i, p. 298 (1904). — Plate, Brazil, Santarem. 



Fig. 2. 



Staä;nuitoptcya flavoguttalii . Saussure. Mém. Jlist. Xat. Mex. Mailt. Amer. 



]). 84. pl. I, f. 5 1 1871) (not of Serville). 

 P . flavoguttatd. Westwood, Revis. Ins. I'ain, Mant. ]i. 16, pi. 6. f. i iicSSg) 



( not of Serville I. 



3. P. unipHiictata (Burmeister). Handb. Ent. Bd. 2, Abth. 2, Ft. i, p. 540 Brazil, ]?uenos Ayres. 



(i83S) {Mantis)\ Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. V'ol. 8, p. 238 (1864) (Mantis). 

 .\. P . tessellata. Saussure & Zehntner, Biol. Centr.-.\mer. Orth. Vol. i, Cayenne, British ( iuiana. 

 p. 188 (1894). 



5. P.ciliata (Stàl), \\. Svenska Freg. lùigen. Resa. Ins. p. 3i3 (i860) Kio Janeiro. 



{Mantis). 



6. P. vitrepennis. Bruner, Journ. New York Ent. Soc. VoL 14. p. 144 (1906). Trinidad. 



7. P. (?) siniiilacriim (Fabricius), Ent. Syst. Vol. 2, p. 21 (1793) (Mantis). America. 



8. P. (?) diluta (Stoll). Natuur. Afbeeld. Beschr. Spooken en Wandel. Blad. Surinam. 



)). 6(). pi. 22, f. 83 (i8t3) (Mantis). 



6. Genus LOBOCNEME nov. gen. 



Parastagmatoptera. Redtenbacher, Froc. Zool. Soc. Fond. ji. 206 (1892). 



Characters. — b'orm of female moderately robust. Vertex truncate, slightly elevated above the 

 eyes; fascial shield transverse, the dorsal margin arcuate; ocelli of moderate size, placed in an arcuate 

 line (9); eyes mammiform-rotundate ( 9 ,)i moderately prominent; antennae serrate (cf ) or setaceous (9 )• 

 Fronotum moderateh' slender, the supracoxal dilation quite marked (9)- 'l>sk subtidjerculate. hardly 

 carinate, lateral margins distincth' denticulate, the shaft as a whole distinctly narrower than the collar. 

 Tegmina of male elongate h3'aline, with costal held dilated basally. oj)aque coriaceous; ot female 

 broad, ovate, oinnpie coriaceous, the margmal field \e\y broad, in the middle two-htths of the entire 

 width of the legmen, narrowed in the apical third by the moderately oblique and rounded excision 

 of this area; stigma longitudinal, whitish, sometimes with a contiguous small fuscous spot. Wings 

 vitreous (cf) or flavo-tessellate ( 9 ) ; discoidal vein with two distal rami (9). Anterior limbs robust; 

 anterior coxae considerably dilated at the apical extremity of the internal face, margin denticulate, the 

 apical extremity with a large blackish spot; anterior femoia (]uite broad, with four discoidal spines, 

 external margin with four spines, internal margin with alternating large and small spines. ^Median and 

 posterior femora of both sexes with a decided rounded lobe on the apical portion of the postei ior ventral 

 carinae, the lobes and the genicular portions of the femora and tibiae infuscate. 



Geographical distributor of species. — .\ single sjiecies from the West Fidian subregion 

 is known. 



1) iJerivecl from //jj'j^ l"be and /.'/'l^'J.'f^ Ifg . 



