1889.] 



of the Mantodean Siibfamihj Vatidre. 



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The organs of flight do not reach beyond the end of the fourth 

 abdominal tergum, but they are of much the same shape and structure, 

 the cliief differences being that in the tegmina the stigma is triangu- 

 lar and in the radio-ulnar interspace, extending on to the two bounding 

 veins, the posterior prong of the anterior ulnar is 7-branched, • the 

 interspace between the anterior prong of this vein and the posterior 

 radial is simple, not wide and multicellular, and the anal gusset is 

 venose, being traversed by the posterior branch of the plicate ; and 

 that in the wings a slight anal emargination is present. 



The crests of the fore coxte are not produced at the apex ; the 

 femora and tibiae are of similar sbape and structure, but the former 

 are 7-si5ined on the outside and 15— 16-spined on the inside. 



The four posterior legs are also similar, but the lateral genicular 

 lobes are not acuminately produced, and the posterior calcaria of the 

 tibiae are foliaceous, lanceolate. 



Distribution. — The Malayan sub-region of the Oriental Region. 



This genus is very closely allied to Toxoclera, with which it agrees 

 in tbe peculiar and remarkable character of the armature of the fore 

 tibiaj, in the anterior lobe of the pronotum being tilted upwards at an 

 obtuse angle to the posterior, and in having large erect and anteriorly 

 buttressed foliaceous lobes at the hinder end of the 6th and 6th terga 

 with rudiments of similar ones, which no doubt stood erect during the 

 larval life of the animal, on all the preceding terga of the abdomen ; 

 but it differs therefrom, amongst other things, in having the fore femora 

 7-spined below on the outer edge, the posterior lobe of the pronotum 

 quite straight and cornigerous, the radio-ulnar cell of the tegmina sim- 

 ple and similar to the other cells of the disk, the anal gusset of the 

 tegmina venose, and the anal cerci very short and broad pyriform in 

 outline, in characters, in fact, which, in my estimation, amply justify 

 the foundation of a new genus. 



18. Paratoxodeea coenicollis, n. sp. 

 2 . Body and legs brown the colour of a twig, with the hinder 

 end, including the foliaceous appendage which arises therefrom, wbity- 

 brown. 



I'oliaceous horn at base of pronotum very strongly hooked and pro- 

 duced forwards, the second horn erect, divided transversely into two 

 sharp points, and the third, which is inclined forwards and rather larger 

 than the second, divided longitudinally into two points. 



Marginal field of tegmina to anterior radial, which is thrice an- 

 nulated with whity-brown, and a large irregular triangular mottling 



