MANTlDiB, PHASMATID^. 
Ins, 215 
Cilnia, id. Z. c. p. 71. Allied to Hierodula ; type, Mantis latipes, StM. 
Bisanthe, id. 1. c. p. 72. Allied to Miomantis\ type, Mantis pulchri- 
pennis, Stiil. 
Ceratomantis, Wood-Mason, P. A. S. B. 1876, p. 75. Type, C. saussuriij 
Pegu (indicated but scarcely described). 
Lithomantis. Woodward (J. G. Soc. xxxiii. p. 63) proposes tbis name 
for a singular fossil from the Coal Measures of Scotland, having some 
resemblance to the recent genus Blepharis, and described as L. car- 
bonarius. On pi. ix. it is figured, with Blepharis domina for com- 
parison. 
New species : — 
Mantis latipes and pulchripennis, Stal, Sv. Ak. Handl. Bihang, iii. 
No. 14, p. 43, S. Africa. M, wheeleri^ Thomas, Wheeler’s Report, v.. 
Zoology, p. 849, ? Colorado. 
Phyllocrania westwoodi, Wood-Mason, P. A. S. B. 1876, p. 176, N4g4 
Hills and Bhutan. 
IleterochcBta tricolor^ id. Ann. N. H. (4) xviii. p. 441, Calcutta. 
Fischeria laticeps, id. 1. c. p. 337, Kolapur State. 
PHASMATIDiE. 
ScuDDER, S. H. Odoriferous glands in Phasmidm. Psyche, i. pp. 
137-140. 
Two pores, situated one on each side of the prothorax in its upper 
anterior part (mistaken by Stal, according to the author, for stigmata), 
omit in many species an odoriferous fluid, secreted in sacs termed “ glan- 
dule odorifere.” Those pores occur in both sexes, and the secretion is 
probably a means of defence, the insects being sluggish in , their habits 
as compared with most other families of the order, and not furnished 
with raptorial members. 
StAl, Sv. Ak. Handl. Bihang, iii. No. 3, pp. 3-21, enters into general 
remarks on the system adopted by him in Part iii. of his “ Recensio 
Orthopterorum ” (c/. Zool. Rec. xii. p. 490), and gives an analytical 
table of genera in a form that he considers more abridged, and in which 
the characters are more readily seizable. He thinks some of the numerous 
genera introduced in his ‘ Recensio ’ may be considered either as such or 
as sub -genera, according to the amount of knowledge possessed by the 
student, or his aptitude to understand the system in its fullest details. 
He himself thinks it better to consider them only as sub genera in some 
cases. The abridged table extends to 16 pages. 
Bacillus gallicus, Charp. Anonymous notes on habits and transforma- 
tions appear in Pet. Nouv. ii. pp. 77 & 78. 
New species : — 
Bactrododema hrevitarsis, Stal, CEfv. Ak. Forh. xxxiii. No. 3, p. 67, 
Damara Land. 
Lonchodes verrucifer^ Wood-Mason, J. A. S. B. xlv. pt. 2, p. 47, pi. xi.. 
South Andaman (c/. P. A. S. B. 1876, p. 95). 
