BLATTIDiE, MANTIDA2. 
Ins. 209 
P. saussurii and puncticollis, Stal, CEfv. Ak. Forh. xxxiv. No. 10, p. 37, 
Philippines. 
Goldenberg, Fauna Saraepontana Fossilis, Heft ii., describes and figures 
the following (from the Carboniferous of Saarbruck) as new: — Blattina 
loemmetsweileriensis, p. 24, pi. i. fig. 9, intermedia^ ibid. pi. i. fig. 10, 
venosa, p. 25, pi. i. fig. 7, scaberata, ibid. pi. i. fig. 8. 
Mantid^e, 
StAl, 0. Systema Mantodeorum ; essai d’une systemetisation nouvelle 
des Mantod^es. Sv. Ak, Handl., Bihang iv. No. 10, with plate. 
The short introduction is mainly occupied by reference to the 
characters furnished by certain spines on the legs, and the neuration, to 
which the plate refers. It is followed by the author’s usual elaborate 
analytical tables, &c. He divides the family into six sub-families, viz. : — 
Amorphoscelidm, Eremophilidcc.^ Mantulce^ Vatidce, Uarpagidoif nndi Empu- 
sidee, all of which are differentiated in a table. The new genera and species 
are very numerous. ^ 
Wood-Mason, J. Descriptions of two New Genera and Species of 
Indian Mantidce. Ann. N. H. (4) xix. pp. 219-222. 
This author’s remarks on the femoral brushes of Mantidce, and on the 
development of the antennm in the pectinicorn species, {cf. Zool. Rec. 
xiii. Im. p. 214) are abstracted in Ann. N. H. (4) xix. p. 269. 
Phyllothelys westwoodi and Hestias brunneriana, their sexual differ- 
ences; id., P, E. Soc; 1877, p. xviii. 
Gonyphus gongylodes, L. On mimetic resemblance to flowers in ; J. 0. 
Westwood, P. E. Soc. 1877, p. xxix. 
Hymenopus bicornis, Serville, mimics flowers. J. Wood-Mason, ibid. 
Mantis religiosah 2 i'& been found near Oivray (Dep. de Vienne), France ; 
M. Bailliot, Feuil. Nat. vii. p. 132 : also near Autun by Gillot, 1. c. p. 156. 
The insect figured in conjunction with its parasite Palmon pachymerus, 
Walker {Chalcididce) ; E. Andr^, 1. c. pp. 137 & 138, pi. iv. Occurs at 
Rohatetz in Moravia ; F. Moraw, Verb. Ver. Briinn, xv. i. p. 47. 
New genera : — 
Annia, StAl, 1. c. p. 10. Follows Metalleutica, Westwood ; type, Chce- 
tessa brunneriana, Saussure. — 
Ai'iusid, p. 12. Follows Eremophila ; type, A. conspersa, sp. n., p. 16, 
Damara Land. 
Pyrgocotis, p. 14. Allied to Pyrgnmantis ; type, P. gracilipes, sp. n., 
p. 17, Ceylon. . 
Lygdamia, ibid. Allied to Pyrgomaniis ; includes Chiropacha lenticularis 
and capitata, Saussure. 
Dy sanies, p. 15. Follows Episcopus ; type, D. longicollis, sp. n., p. 18, 
Bengal. 
Arria, p. 20. Follows Sibylla ; type, A. cinctipes, sp. n., p. 46, India. 
1877 . [voL. XIV.] B 82 
