1889.] 



o/ the Mantodean Subfamily Vatidco. 



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tlie 7th sternum, equalling in length the four terminal abdominal terga 

 taken together, and widening from the base to the a^ex, which is divid- 

 ed by a shallow notch into two points. 



Anterior legs long and slender ; coxte expanded along the apical 

 fourth of their anterior crest into a conspicuous dentate foHaceous lobe ; 

 femora nearly straight above, weakly arched below, with acute genicular 

 lobes and a conspicuous supra-genioular lobe at obtuse angles to the 

 upper margin, armed below on the outer edge with 6 spines, of which 

 the first is equal to the third and the 2nd to the 6th form a slighty de- 

 creasing scries, on the inner edge with 12 alternately shorter and longer, 

 and on the disk with 3 ; tibias as broad as high, above terete, perfectly 

 straight and uniformly wide throughout from base to insertion of tarsus. 

 Posterior legs very short ; the femora stout, slightly tapering at both 

 ends, prismatic, with four strong crests, a blunt ridge on each side 

 between the dorsal and ventral crests, the upper or posterior of the 

 ventral crests foliaceous, long slender genicular and supragenicular 

 lobes, but no genicular spines ; tibias rather longer than the femora, 

 above terete, below bicristate ; 1st joint of tarsus not quite so long 

 as the three succeeding taken together. 



DiSTiiiBUTiON. — Indian sub-region of the Oriental Region. 



Winged specimens of this genus will be described and figured by 

 Professor Westwood in his forthcoming ' Bevisio Maniidarnm.' 



13. Paeadantjeia oeientalis, W.-M. 



Taradamtria orientalis, Wood-Mason, Auu. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, vol. six, 

 Bor. 4i, p. 220, $ nymph.. 



Hab. — Bangalore, Mysore. 



Genus 7. Euthyphleps, nov. 



9 . Body long, rather small and delicate, slender bacilliform. In- 

 tegument granulose and spinulose especially in the prothorax. 



Head somewhat depressed ; vertex slightly declivous, its median 

 lobe separated from the submedian lobes by two longitudinal depres- 

 sions of the disk, the latter triangularly produced backwards, upwards, 

 and outwards so as to form an occipital cavity for the reception of the 

 fore end of the pronotum ; forehead and face convexly more declivous, 

 so that, when the head is viewed from the side, the eyes appear 

 to be separated from the submedian lobes of the vertex by a deep 

 notch one side of which is formed by the eyes, the other by the 

 submedian lobes, and the bottom by the narrow lateral lobes of the 

 vertex. Stemmata large, on a considerable eminence, which bears a 



