1889.] 



of iJie Mantodean Su.hfamih/ Vatidis. 



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longer than tlie lateral lobes, also almost straight below, where they are 

 armed on the outer edge with 5 or 6 spines, on the inner edge with 11, 

 and on the disk with 3 ; tibiee straight, terete above, paucispinoso, tho 

 spines in a single short series decreasing from the apex. 



Posterior legs short and weak : femora prismatic, slightly tapering 

 to both ends, with four strong ci'ests and a strong blunt crooked ridge on 

 each side giving them the appearance of being bent down near the apes, 

 with thi-ee equal acuminate genicular lobes and an acicular genicular 

 spine, which is longer than the lobes in the anterior pair, with the two 

 dorsal crests slightly lobed and the upper or posterior ventral crest ex- 

 panded into a foliaceous lobe, which is divided into two or more lobules ; 

 tibiae longer than the femora, terete above, (?) obsoletely bicristate 

 below ; first tarsal joint shorter than the two succeeding joints taken 

 together. 



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



This genus is closely allied to Tomdera and Paratoxodera, agreeing 

 with both, amongst other things, in the oblique truncation of the 

 extremities, resulting in the forward position of the apices, of the organs 

 of flight, and with the former, but not with the latter, in the radio-ulnar 

 cell of its tegmina being wide and multicellular, and in the anal cerci 

 being lanceolate and acutely bifid at the extremity ; but it may bo 

 distinguished readily from both by the ijossession of a distinct though 

 small frontal horn, foliaceously amplified fore ooxoe, paucispinoso fora 

 tibiffi, with the spines of each side in a single short and decreasing 

 series, 6-spined fore femora, a short first joint to its four posterior 

 tarsi, a simple and unlobed abdomen, a straight pronotal long axis, 

 and a venose anal gusset to its tegmina. 



15. TOXODEROPSIS SPINKiERA, n. sp., Westw. & W.-M. 



Toxodera spinigera, Westwood, MSS. 

 9 . Dark vandyke-brown the colour of a dead twig or of rotten 

 loaves. 



The frontal horn is a sharp spike-like projection. 



Tegmina with the marginal field opaque dark vandyke-brown, an 

 opaque whity-brown longitudinal streak extending from the base to 

 beyond the middle of the wing immediately posterior to the anterior 

 radial, diffusing itself along each side of the veins of the disk, and 

 including the long polished stigma and the base of tho anterior radial 

 the anal area smeared with dark vandyke-brown, and tho longitudinal 

 veins marked with somewhat blurred and smear-like spots and streaks of 

 the same colour, especially at the apex, where every vein has a sti-eak at 

 its extremity. Tho posterior fork of the anterior radial is distinctly 4- 

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