1889.] 



of the Mantodean Snhfamily Vatidiie. 



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tibial -witli tf ? 4 — 4 on the outer edge and 2 7 — 8, d 6 — 7 on the 

 inner. 



In the posterior femora, the upper or posterior dorsal crest bears 

 two or three saw-lilte teeth and the distal lobule of the ventral folia- 

 ceous lobe is divided right to its base and has a minute sharp spinule 

 in front of it, of which but slight traces are to be seen in the other 

 species. 



The upper angle of the penultimate joint of the cerci is as much 

 produced and as sharp as the tips of the terminal. 



Total length c? 78, ? 88 millims. ; length of pronotura, t? 21-5, 

 9 26'5, of which the anterior and posterior lobes are respectively c? 

 4-5, 2 5-75 and c? 17, 9 20-75, breadth at supra. coxal dilatation <? 3-5, 

 2 4, at hinder end c? 3'5, 9 4 ; length of meso- and. metanotum with 

 seg. med. 15-5, 9 16 ; length of abdomen without sag. med. <? 39, 2 

 42, breadth at middle of 4th seg. S 275, 9 3-5, at apex of Cth d 4-5, 

 9 6 ; length of tegmina c? 37, 9 44, breadth at middle d" — ,9 7-5 ; 

 length of wings d 36, 9 40, breadth 3 — 9 — ; length of fore 

 femur c? 16'6, 9 18, tibia, from base to insertion of tarsus, c? 10, 9 12; 

 length of intermediate femur t? — 9 7'25, tibia c? — 9 10'25, 1st tarsal 

 joint c? — 9 2 ; of posterior femur S — 9 8'5 tibia c? — 2 H, 1st 

 tarsal joint c? — 9 275 ; of cerci (broken off), 9 6-25, breadth 9 2. 



Hab.— c? Sind; 9 Khurda, Orissa (TF. G. TayJor). 



The two succeeding genera differ from all the preceding in having 

 the fore tibise multispinose on both edges, with the spines of both edges 

 divided at irregular intervals into several irregular series by some of 

 their number being longer and stouter than the others, and in having 

 a long first joint to their four posterior tarsi, and from all except 

 HeterochcEta and Heteroclicetula in not having the ujoper crest of the fore 

 COXES in the slightest degree foliaceously amplified at the apex. 



Genus 9. Toxodeka, Serville. 

 Toxodera, Serville, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1837, t. vi, p. 27.— Hist. nat. tl. Ortliopt. 

 1839, p. 168, cf . 



c7 9 . Sexes alike. Body greatly elongated, bacilliform. 



Head broad, triangular ; vertex between the eyes regularly arched, 

 divided by two broad and shallow discal impressions into a median and 

 two submedian lobes, which are separated from the unarmed stemmatal 

 eminence by a transverse groove, and the two latter of which are limited 

 off by fine grooves from the ample lateral lobes, which, with the eyes, 

 are almost in the same plane with the rest of the vertex, being scarcely 

 at all bent forwards ; a strong ridge curves inwards and upwards on 

 each side from a point at the ocular margin which is opposite to the 



