26 



UR 1 1 K )!' rERA 



ti ansverst', the dorsal niai i^in subi ibtiise-aiif^ulate. Pronotum cli mi^alc. seal n i isi i-tube i culatc ; supia- 

 coxal dilation distincl but imt laii;e, suban,i;ulate ; lateral uiar,i;ins senato-dentatc ; shaft with a strong' 

 median carina, collar with a uicdio-longitudinal sulcus. reL^uiina and wings \crv ample m the male, 

 covering about two-thirds of the abdomen in the lemale: tcj^iniua ( oi iac('t)us, wings smokw Terminal 

 abdominal segments with a low niedio-longitudinal mai i^inal cicst ; sujua-anal i>latc of female subtri,i;()nal 

 or transverse (juadrate with the angles rounded; cerci of female monilifoiui. Anterior limbs robust, 

 moderately long, scabrous; coxa' slightly less than two-thirds the ])ronolal length, triquetrous in section, 

 margins serrato-granulate, the anterior margin with a distinct distal subtrigonal lobe; femora with the 

 dorsal margin serrato-dentate and aimed with a dentiloiin ])rea])ical lobe, lateral margin armed with 

 four spines, internal margin armed with loiuteen or iîtteen sjiines (exclusive in each case of one in each 

 genicular lobe); tibife armed externallx with eight sjiines, internally with teii or eleven spines. Median 

 and posterior limbs lobate (except in male of spurca), having on the mecfian femora a dorsal premedian 

 and dorsal preapical and a \ entral preapical lobe, on the median tibia; a preapical paii , in the posterior 

 femora a minute doisal and on the tilMl);e a single preapical lobe. 



Type of the genus : l\ shirca, Stal. 



Geographical distribution of species. — I-'ive nominal species, whose ri'lationships are 

 imperfectly kn(jwn, are found in the African and Oriental regions. 



1. P. spurca, Stâl, üefv. Vet.-Akad. Förh. \'ol. i3. p. ihtj (i856); \'ol. 28. 



no. 3, p. 387 (1871). — Plate, Fig. 6. 



Mwdrtii! i nec Fabriciusj, Charpentier. Orth. Descr. Depicta, pl. 3^(1841} 

 {Majitisi; .Saussure. ^Mélan"'. Orth. I't. i, p. 3oq (1872); Saussure i^; 

 Zehntner, in Grandidier, Hist. Phys. Nat. Madat^ascar. Orth. \'o\. i, 

 p. 233 1 1895,1 . 



vay . pallida, Saussure & ZehnUier. in ( irandidier, Hist. Phys. Xat. Madagas- 

 car, Orth. Vul . 1. p. 234 ( iSqS». 



2. P. undala ( l-'abricius). lint. Syst. \^ol. 2. p. ig (i/tß) (Mantis). 



uiuidta. Werner. Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sc. St. Pétersb.. Vol. i3. 



\). 124 (1908) IPopa). 



3. P. servillei, (iiglio-Tos, Boll. .AIns. Zool. Anat. Comp. Torino. \'ol. ^j, 



no. .569, p. 3 (1907). 



Theoclytes ? uiidala, Serville, Hist. Xat. Ins. Ortli., ]>. i5z 11839) (not of 

 Fabricius) . 



4. P. batesi, .Saussuie & Zehntnt'r. in Cirandidier, Hist. I'hys. Xat. Alada- 



gascar, (.)rth. Vol. i, p. 23o (iSqS). 



uiidala, Idates, Proc. Zool. Sec. Lond. i863. p. 480 (1864) ipart.i. 



5. P. sinlilmanni, Rehn, Ergebn. Deutsch. Cent. Afr. Exped. 1907-08. 



Zool.. Orth. (iqii). 



.S<nith and East Africa (Cape 

 of Good Hope to .Somali- 

 land), Madagascai'. 



India, Ceylon. 



Cape of Good Hope, Mada- 

 gascar. 



Madagascar. 



Central Afiica. 



26. Genus DANURIELLA, Westwood 



Danuriella. \\'eslw(jod. Revis. Ins. b'am. Mant. p. 42 (1889); Saussure cV- Zehntner, in (kandidier, 

 Hist. Phys. Nat. Madagascar. Orth. Vol. i, j). 235 (iSgS). 



Characters. — Insects of very small size, sexes dissimilar. Body slender, extremely rugose. 

 Head moderate, str(mgly embossed; eyes large, strongly projecting forwards; occiput much com- 

 pressed, more elevated than the eyes, forming a triangular tooth on each side; facial shield transverse, 

 the dorsal margin obtuse-angulate, the angle markedly produced anteriorly in the form of a tooth. 

 Pronotum short, about two and a half times as long as the greatest width, granulate, carinate. denti- 

 culate on the borders, the dilation very weak, the collar short. Limbs short; anterior pair moderately- 

 strong, very rugose, .interior cox£e not dilated into a plate at the extremity of the anterior margin; 



