1889.] 



of the Mantodean Suhfamily Vatidai. 



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14. BUTHTPHLEPS EECTIVENIS, n. sp. 



9 . Body the colour of a dead twig. 



Tegmina semitransparont pale yellowish brown with the marginal 

 field and a long linear streak on the basal half of the anterior prong of 

 the anterior ulnar opaque bright cinnamon-brown. Wings hyaline 

 with the anterior margin semitransparont pale yellowish brown and a 

 decreasing series of four or five streaks on the veins at the apex cinna- 

 mon brown. 



Fore tibias armed on the outer edges with 4-4 and on the inner with 

 6-7 spines, the last of which is strongly directed obliqiioly towards the 

 apex. 



Postei'ior logs with a slight lobe on tho upper or posterior dorsal 

 crest and a well developed one on the upper or posterior ventral crest, 

 which is divided, by a more (posterior pair) or less (intermediate pair) 

 distinct emai'gination, into two lobes, a smaller trilobulated proximal and 

 a larger crescent-shaped obsoletely dentate distal. 



Total length 70 millims. ; length of pronotum 19'6, of which the 

 anterior and posterior lobes are respectively 4-25 and 15-25, breadth at 

 supracoxal dilatation 3"25 ; length of meso- and metanotum with seg. 

 med. 13 ; of abdomen without seg. mod. 33, breadth at middle 2-75 ; 

 length of tegmina 43, breadth at middle 7 ; length of wings 39, 

 breadth 17 ; length of fore coxa 10, femur 16, breadth 1'75, length of 

 tibia, from base to insertion of tarsus, 11 ; of intermediate femur 10, 

 tibia 10'25 ; of posterior femur 12, tibia 14 ; of antennse 19 ; of cerci 

 3-5, breadth 2. 



Hab.— Kulu, Kangra, N.-W. Himalayas, 3,600 feet (^1. Graham 

 Yountj). 



Genus 8. Toxoderopsis, nov. 

 (? ? . Body greatly elongated, bacilliform. 



Head similar to that of the genera Toxodera and Paratoxodera, but 

 not nearly so wide, its long axis forming with that of the eyes a much 

 narrower angle ; median and snbmedian lobes of the vertex a little 

 higher than the lateral lobes, slightly arched, separated by a transverse 

 groove from the prominent eminence which bears the large stemmata, 

 and is produced at the middle of its upper or hinder margin into a 

 short erect process, which may be acute or blunt and sub-bifid ; eyes 

 oval, convex, produced slightly above the level of the lateral lobes of 

 the vertex, and bearing at their upper and outer angles a long sharp 

 slender incurved conical non-faceted corneal spine ; a small tubercle 

 close to the inner and anterior margin of each eye, rej)resenting the 

 curved ridge in Toxodera ; facial shield divided into three parts, one 



