I'AM. MANTID.I': 



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antei icH" femora having ihr siijuTior niarj^in snniew hal sinuate, teiininatin«;, m a sUon<( tootli. the 

 fxternal iiiaii;in braiint;' tour perpendicular spines, tlie internal armed with tour pairs of alternatinj;- 

 lar^e and small spines followed by two or thrc e small spines, a large one and last two small ones; 

 anterior tibi;e very robust, sulicompressed, the inferior face concave, not sinuate dorsaliy, the margins 

 re,^"ularl\- armed. Median limbs with the femora and tdjiu' labate. Posterior femora with a small lobe ; 

 l'>osterior tibi.e not caiinulate, the sujierior margin bi-undnlat(\ the extremity attenuate; metatarsi very 

 long, C3iindrical, not carinulate. 



Female. — Ocelli small. I c^gmina lanceolate, very short, subcoriaceous. Wings l^rown, semi- 

 (jibicular, the anterior field truncate. Abdomen subfusifoim, very strongly rugose, bearing on the 

 dorsum three longitucHnal folds; posterior margin of dorsal segments i to ,S sinuate, forming on each 

 side a rounded carinulate lol)e, seventh segment w ith the lateral borders dilated. Supra-anal plate trans- 

 verse, roimded ; cerci short. 



Male. — l-'orm slender. Ocelli ver\' large. Organs of Hight elongate, hyaline, little or no coloring. 

 Wings large, veins straight and simple. Limbs slendei . Abdomen slender and \ ery smooth. 



Geographical distribution of species. — The onl_\- known species of this genus is found in 

 the Malagasian subregion. 



r. D. irreiinlaris, Wesiwood, Revis. Ins. l'"am. Mant.p. 42, pi. i, f. g (i88g). Madagascar. 

 iryti^ulaiis, Saussure Zehntner, in Grandidier, Hist. I'hys. Xat. .Alada- 

 j^ascar, Orth. Vol. i. ]>. 236. pi. 7, ff. 6, 7 iiSgSi. 



27. Genus PHITRUS, Karsch 



Phitrus. Karsch, Ent. Xachr. Vol. iN, p. 14g (i8g2j; iierl. Itnt. Zeitschr. \ ol. 3g, p. 279, pi. 20, 

 f. 8 (i8g4). 



Characters. — I'emale gex alone knovi n. horm slender, elongate. Mead transverse, depressed, 

 not bi-auriculate lobate; eyes rounded; antenna^ ver\' slender, moderately long. Pronotnm linear, 

 nearly two and one-half times the length of the anterior coxee; above the coxal insertion shghtly 

 expanded and thei e nearly twice the width of the base of the pronotum ; entire lateral margins subserrato- 

 granulose. Tegmina and wings squamiform, wings colored. Limbs slender, moderately long; anterior 

 coxa' with the posterior margin serrulate; anterior femora little longer than the coxa?, beneath on the 

 external margin with four spines exclusive of the apical one, on the internal margin with fourteen 

 spines, discoidal spines four in number; anterior tibiae beneath armed with ten spines on the external 

 margin and thirteen or fourteen on the internal margin; median and posterior femora with a preapical 

 lobe in addition to the genicular ones; posterior tibial not carinate above. 



Geographical distribution of species. — A single spt'cies is known from 'J'ropical .\trica. 

 1. P. Iflbulipes, Karsch, Ent. Xachr. \'ol. 18, p. 149 (1892); IJerl. Ent. Cameroon, West Africa. 

 Zeitschr. \'ol. 39, ]). 279, pi. 20, f 8 (1894). 



28. Genus JALLA, Giglio-Tos 



Jalla. Ciiglio-Tos, Holl. Mus. Zool. Aiiat. Comp. Torino, \'ol. 23, no. 563, j). i3 (1907). 



Characters. — Head broad; eyes considerably prominent, internal margin sinuate, sub- 

 reniform ; facial shield much broader than long, the superior margin bisinuate in bracket (J) form ; 

 ocelli large and disposed in a triangulate, approximate; vertex behind ocelli with a transverse arcuate 



