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OIMHOPTKKA 



subparallel margins, apex rotundate: costal field and region of principal veins opaque, coriaceous, 

 posteriori}' h3-aline; stigma present or rareh- (in hyaloptera) absent; ocellar spot obliterate or indicated 

 by several disconnected maculations; tei^mina of female elongate-ovate or ovate; anterior margin gently 

 arcuate, with the distal third strongly arcuate or obliquely subtruncate; apex broadi}' rounded, acute, 

 attenuate or very blunt; costal field coriaceous, broad, from a third to two-filths the total width of the 

 tegmen and densely areolate. discoidal field semi-membraneous or coriaceous with membraneous points; 

 stigma usually present, white or concolorous, linear or pi riform, obliquel}' transverse or longitudinal, 

 in close proximity to the principal veins or placed a distance posterior to the same; ocellar spot present 

 or absent, where present marked and tisually of considerable size, the stigma forming a portion of the 

 })eripheiy; discoidal sectors from six to eight in number; marginal field with the veins moderately 

 distinct and regularly oblique or rarely almost lost in the reticulations {insaiiabilis); anal area hyaline, 

 usiiall}' ornamented with opaque nervure bands or punctate with opaque color. Wings of male hyaline 

 with anterior border and apex slighth' opaque; discoidal vein w ith two or three rami ; axillary and 

 humeral fields frequently with more or less distinct rudimentar\' trans\'erse opaque bars on the 

 cross veins; wings of female large and broad. Inaline with the costal margin antl extremit}' opaque, the 

 remainder with a conspicuous pattern of opaque yellowish bars on the cross veins; humeral field yer\- 

 broad : discoidal vein with two rami; apex rounded or subacuminate (gra)i(i idieri). Antev\oY limbs of 

 male moderately robust; coxa:' unarmed or denticulate on the margins; femora with the internal face 

 plain or with median spot : anterior limbs of female quite robust; coxa' with both margins equally 

 denticulate or with the posterior very finely sjnnulose when compared with the anterior; femora with 

 four discoidal spines and strong marginal spines, internal face unmarked or ornamented with a single 

 large spot or a series of varicolored maculations and striae; tibife with ten to thirteen spines on the 

 external margin and twelve to sixteen on the internal. Abdomen of male slender, of female broad and 

 depressed; supra-anal plate of male trigonal, subgenital plate ample, produced; supra-anal plate of 

 female transverse, trigonal, broadly rounded or very slightly and shallowly emarginate { femoralis). 



Type of the genus (i) : .S. predicatoria, Saussure. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Twenty-one species of the genus are known; one 

 West African, three from Madagascar and the remainder from the Neotropical region, ranging from 

 Nicaragua to Argentina. 



1. S. biocellata, Saussure. Alitt. Schweiz. Ent. Ges. \o\. 3. p. 67 (1869). Brazil. 



2. 5. SHpplicaria, Burmeister, Handb. Ent. Bd. 2, .\bth. 2, Pt. i, p. 542 Guiana, Surinam, Brazil. 



(i838) {Mantis). — Plate, Fig. 5. 



sHpplicaria, Saussure, Mem. Hist. Xat. Mex. Mant. Ainér. p. 94. pi. i, 

 f. II (1871). 



precaiia. Lichtenstein. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. Vol. 6. p. 26 (1802) 



{Mantis) (not of Linnasus. lySS); Stoll. Xatuur. Afbeeld. Beschr. 



Spooken en Wandel. Blad. pp. 5i. 78, pi. 17. f. 62 (i8i.3) (Mantis) 



(not of Linnaeus, i758). 

 jlavipennis, Serville, Hist. Xat. Ins. Orth. p. 182 { iSZg) [Mantis). 



3. 5. hyaloptera (Perty). iJelect. Anim. Artie, p. 117, pi. 23, f. 6 (i83o- Guiana, Ca}'enne, .Amazon 



1834) (Mantis). River. 

 Iiyalopleia, SSiUssure. Mém. Hist. Xat. Me.\. Mant. Amér. p. o5, pi. i, 

 f. 12 (18711. 



4. 5. lima (Serville), Hist. Nat. Ins. Orth. p. i83 (1S39) (Mantis). Cordoba, Argentina. 



5. 5. predicatoria, Saussure, Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Ges. \o\. 3, p. 232 Brazil, eastern Peru. 



(1870); Mém. Hist. Nat. Mex. Mant. Amér. p. 92, pi. i, f. 10 (1871). 



6. 5. binotata, Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. Vol. 12, p. 341 (1869). Eastern Peru. 



(i) .-\s selected l»y Rehn. Proc. C . S. .\'at . Mtts . Vol. 27, p. .^71 (February, 1(104). 



