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lose. Teginina of male elongati-, subeijual, costal field rather narrow, attenuate, virido-coriaceous, 

 remainder almost entirely hyaline (cingulata) or greenish semi-hyaline, more decidedly hyaline toward 

 the suturai margin, several oblique fuscous maculations usuall)- present, apex rotundato-angulate ; of 

 female shorter, virido-coriaceous, the costal field sharply excised about a fourth the (hstance from the 

 apex or slightly cjr hardly excised at the same point, fuscous maculations usual present as in male, apex 

 acute or rotundato-angulate. Wings of male hyaline, more or less infuscate or virido-coriaceous apically ; 

 of female strongly infuscate with a preapical section as well as portion of the margin paler and trans- 

 verse veins of the disk subh3 aline, or In^aline with the costal margin and apex subcoriaceous. Abdomen 

 with the lateral margins lobcd or entire in the female, male without abdominal lobes. Anterior coxa; 

 more or less distinctly spinulose nn the anterior margin, usually with intercalated smaller spinulations ; 

 anterior femora with four discoidal spines, external margin with four spines. Median and posterior 

 limbs more or less distinctl3' lobate ami with strongly indicated carina' ; genicular lobes ot median and 

 posterior limbs produced subangulate. 



Type of the genus : V. lobnfa ( I-'cdiricius). 



Geographical distribution of species. — Sixteen species are known trom the Xecjtropical 

 region, ranging from the sfHithern United States (.Arizona) to Brazil and Peru, with one species foimd 

 in the ( ireater Antilles. 



1. V . fyeciinata, Saussure, Mém. Hist. Xat. Alex. .Mant. .\mér. p. i63, Vera Cruz and Tabasco. 



]il. 2. f. 34 (1871). Afexico. 

 pectiiuita. Saussure & Zehntner, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Orth. Vol. i, p. 196, 

 pi. 6, ff. 4. 5, pi. 10. ff. 3o-32 (1894). 



2. V . foliata (Lichtenstein), Trans. Linn. Soc. Loud. \'ol. 6, p. 24 (1802) « Bengal Guiana. 



{Mantis). 



siibloluili!. i^toU. Xatuur. Afbeeld. Beschr. Sjiooken en Wandel. Blad. 

 pj). 55, 78, pi. 18, f. 07 (i8i3} {ßfnntisi. 



3. sphiiigiconiis (Stoll), ibidem, pp. 5g. 78, pi. 20, f. 74 {iüi3>) (Mantis), a Amboina ». 



4. r. lohata (Fabricius), Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 190 (1798) (Mantis). Cayenne, Brazil. 



Iiyaliiuj, Charpentier. Silbermann Rev. Ent. Vol. 3, p. 3i6( i835i (Empusar, 



Orth. Daser. Depicta, pl. 2 (1841) (Empnsa). 

 iv/^jii/rfo/K.î, Bnrmeister, Handb . Ent. Bd. 2, Abth. 2, pt. i. p. 543(1 838). 



5. V . drnticnlata, Saussure, Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Ges. Vol. 3. p. 222 (1870). Surinam. 

 (). V. aniazonica (\Vest\\"ood ), Revis. Ins. I"am. ]\Iant. p. 46 (1889) Amazonia. 



( T luoilyies). 



7. V. peruviana, nov. sp. (i). Peru. 



8. F. /'<'i'//h/Vo;«/.'; (Stâl), Bihang Svenska \"et.-.-\kad. I landl. \'ol. 4 (10). Chiriqui. 



p. 73 (1877) (TheocJytes). 



(I) Vates peruviana, nov. sp.— Type : cJ ; Despoblado, N. VerniAcaJ, Xal. .^'c. Pkihui). 



Allied to V. pectiiiicoruis Stal and nm.tzoiiica Westwood, but difl'ering- from the former in the further suppression of the median and posterior 

 femoral lobes and in the less elongate pectinations of the antenna-, and from the latter in the larger size, the suppression of the femoral lobes and in the 

 antenn:c being longer than the pronotuni. 



Size medium, form elongate. Head half again as broad as the greatest width of the pronotum, much broader than deep, occipital margin 

 truncato-sinuate ; vertex with processes rather short, slightly divergent, conic; eyes diverted slightly anteriorly; antennas when extended posteriorly 

 ri-aehing slightly beyond posterior margin of pronotum, subpectinate. Pronotum slender, the greatest width contained about four and one-halt times in 

 ength. shaft subequal, dilation considerable, rounded, collar slightly broader than the shaft, subequal, cephalic margin arcuate : lateral margins irr>-gularly 

 granuloso-dentate, these more numerous anteriorly than posteriorly, median carina distinct. Tegmina nearly twice as long as the pronotum. elongate, 

 subequal; costal field narrow, slightly ampliate near base, narrowing regularly toward the apex, coriaceous, opaque, remainder of the tegmina subhyaline, 

 apex rounded. Anterior coxae very slightly more than half the length of the pronotum, on the anterior margin supplied with spaced serrato- dentations of 

 two sizes, posterior face with numerous small adpressed dentations; anterior femora distinctly longer th.m the coxae, rather slender, slightly arcuate, 

 external margin with five (or four I spines, internal margin with fourteen or fifteen spines of alternating large and small size, discoidal spines four in 

 number; anterior tibiae slightly less than half the length of the femora, armed externally with eleven and internally with fourteen spines. Median limbs 

 consideidbly shorter than the posterior pair, both with no distinct femoral lobes : tibise of both piirs with a distinct low dorsal preniedian lobe carinations 

 decided and sometimes suManiellate. 



General color pale ochraceous, mottled and clouded (annulate or subannulatc on the limbs) with prout's brown; eyes seal brown; antennae 

 prout's brown. Tegmina pale translucent pea green, becoming pala apple green on the opaque costal field, with median and preniedian oblique brownish 

 maculations extending over the median section of the tegmina. Wings pale naples yellow, clouded with gamboge ytUow at the apex and along the costal 

 margin, apical section with scattered minute brownish spots 



Length of lîody .So mm.: length ot pronotum lo: greatest width of pronotum 3.S; length of tegnien 3;; length of anterior femur 11. 



1 he type ij unique. 



