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1889.] of the Mantodean Suhfaiuily Ydtidse. 311 



(? liyaline, the rest of tlie wings rQembranous, ^ hyaline or at mosb 

 obsoletely tesselated, 5 more or less distinctly and extensively tessela- 

 ted with pellucid brown : longitudinal veins of tegmina very slightly and 

 widely sinuous, almost straight ; anterior radial forked at or just before 

 its apical third, posterior radial simple, anastomosed to the anterior for 

 a short distance soon after its origin, becoming again free at the stigma, 

 which is indistinct, colourless, and in the radio-ulnar interspace ; anterior 

 prong of anterior ulnar 1 or 2-braiiohed, posterior prong 4 to 5-brauohed ; 

 dividens running to posterior margin or into posterior ulnar; plicata 

 sending its main stem direct to the margin, its branches through the anal 

 gusset, which is hence venose ; and the transverse veinlets curved : wings 

 with distinct anal omargination, unbranchcd anterior ulnar, and first 

 plicate vein forked at or before the end of its basal third. 



Anterior coxeb triquetrous, their crests, especially the posterior, 

 granulose-spinulose, the anterior or upper expanded at the apex into a 

 short foliaceous lobe ; femora with their upper margin concave, cristate 

 at the apex, their lower armed on the outer edge with 5 spines, of which 

 the first two are sub-equal and longer and the last three sub-equal and 

 shorter, on the inner edge with 12-14 alternately shorter and longer, 

 of which the two last are long ones, and on the disk with 3 small ones ; 

 tibias weak, curved, slightly enlarged to either end from their thin mid- 

 dle, but especially to the armed end, terete above to within a little of the 

 apex, which is faintly crested, paucispiuose, being armed only on the 

 apical fifth of their outer edge and on the apical half of their inner 

 edge, terminal claw long and rather abruptly hooked. 



Posterior legs rather short, strongly crested; femora prismatic, 

 without genicular spines, with four crests, which may or may not be 

 expanded^'into foliaceous lobes and in the latter case are spinulose, their 

 knee-lobes short, submucronate-triangular ; tibiES triquetrous, equal to 

 or a trifle longer than the femora, with three crests, one dorsal and two 

 ventral with or without foliaceous lobes, in which latter ease they are 

 5-side'd'aud fusiformly enlarged ; first tarsal joint short, only about as 

 long as tho two following taken together. 



DiSTEiBUTioN.— Indian and [South Indian and]* Ocylouese sub- 

 regions of tho Oriental Region. 



The discoveiy of two species with well- developed corneal spines has 

 led to the detection of vestiges of those structures in the typical species. 



* Tho brackets are intendoa to indicate that no roprosentatiyo of the gonns 

 yet been recorded from tho portion of the subrcgion tho name of which m 

 enclosed. 



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