306 J. Wood-Mason— EtJiiopian and Oriental Bepresentatives [No. 3, 



XVlU.—The miiiopian and Oriental Bepresentatives of the Mantodean 

 Subfamily Vatidfe.— % J. Wood-Masoit, Superintendent of the 

 Indian Museum, and Professor of Comparative Anatomy in the 

 Medical College of Bengal, Calcutta. 



[Read November 6th, 1889.] 

 Genus 1. Danueia, Stal. 

 Danuria, SUl, Of v. Kongl. Tet.-Akad. Fiir.h. 1857, p. 169; 1872, p. 387 d" • 

 Bill. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1877, pp. 69-70, ^ 2 .-Saussnre, Mel. Orthopt. 187o' 

 t. i, p. 309. 



DiSTEiBUTiON.— South and East-African sub-regions of the Ethio- 

 pian Region. 



1. Danuria thotbeegi, Stal. 



Danuria thunhergi, Stal, Ofv. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1857, p. 1G9; 1872, 

 p. 383, rf'.-Sanssure, Mel. Orthopt. 1870, t. i, p. 444, pi. v, figs. 66, 66a, 67, d' 9 •— ' 

 de Bormans, Ann. Soe. Ent. Belg. 1881, vol. xxv, p. 23. 



Hab.— Natal (Stal) ; South Africa (Samsure, de Bormans). 



2. Danueia bolauana, Saussure. 

 Danuria lolauana, Saussnre, Bull. Entom. Suisse 1869, t. iii, p. 79 ^ . jicl 

 Orthopt. 1870, t. i, p. 310, cT.— de Bormans, Ann. Soo. Ent. Belg. 1881, vol! xxv, 'p. 22! 

 Hab.— Zanzibar (Saussure) ; South Africa {de Bormans). 



3. Danueia supeeciliaeis, (Gerstaeoirer). 

 Mantis [Danuria P) .nperoiUaris, Gerstaeoker, Arch. f. Naturgosoh. 1869 xxxv 

 Jahrg,, 1 Band, S. 210, et v. d. Deoken's Eeisen in Ost-Afrika, iii Band ii Abt % 

 Taf. 1, fig. 7, la., 76., ? nymph. ' ' 



Hab. — Wanga, East- Africa. 



Possibly an immature female of the preceding. 



4. Danuria elongata, de Borre. 



^ ^Danuria elongata, de Borre, Liste d. Mant. Mus. Roy. Hist. Nat. Belg. 1883, 



Hab. — Southern Guinea. 



5. Danuria BucnnOLZi, Gerstaecker. 

 1883^^'.'^ - Orthopt.-Eauna Guinea's 



Hab. — Akkra, Gold Coast. 



