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PLATE LXII. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OP SOOTHSAYERS. 
(MANTID^.) 
PHYLLOCRANIA INSIGNIS, Westw* (Plate 62, fig. 1.) 
P, lutco-fu6ca^ tegminibus olivaceo-fuscU, basi, vittaque obliqua media albidis, alarum angulo 
apicali producto, hoc areaque anali fuscis reliqua parte alarum fulvescente fusco irrorata, 
foliolis prothoracis et pedum posticorum albldo et olivaceo variis. 
Long, corp. (cornu capitis incluso) unc. 2^, 
Habitat in Sierra Leone. In Mus, BritU et D. Hope. 
This insect appears to be specifically distinct from PIi. paradoxa, 
of Burmeister*; it agrees, however, with it in its remarkable 
structural peculiarities, namely, the singular, elongated, narrow, 
leaf-like appendage of the head, the dilated sides of the prothorax, 
and the leaflets of the four hind femora and tibise. Mantis Diana, 
of Stoll (fig. 100), and the Empusse, agree with Phyllocrania in the 
produced head, but the latter have pectinated antennae in the males, 
whereas all the specimens of the species above described, which I 
have hitherto seen (one belonging to the Bev. F. W. Hope, and 
two discoloured ones in tlie British Museum collection), possess very 
slender, simple antennae. Of these specimens tw^o agree in having 
a shorter appendage to the head, one of which is represented in my 
plate, whereas the other has the head produced into a much longer, 
slenderer, and more curved horn (fig. 1 a). This last, I apprehend, 
is the male, and the other two females. In all otlier external 
characters, however, they agree together. Mantis (Blepharis) 
Kuhlii of De Haan (Bijdragen, &c., plate 18, fig. S), seems in 
general form, dilated abdomen, and foliated hind femora, to 
approach nearer to Phylloci’ania than to Blepharis mendica. 
MANTIS METALLICA, Westw. (Plate 62, fig. 3.) 
M. chalybea, nitida, capitis plaga verticali, et pronoto antice et postice flavis, tegminibus fulvis 
venis viridlbus, alls ad angulum analem late fuscis. 
Long. corp. lin. 14, E3:pan8. tegmin, unc. 2. 
Inhabits Sylhet iu the East Indies. In the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
With the exception of Metallyticus splendidust, and the present 
species, I am not acquainted w’ith any metallic Mantideous insect. 
The body and legs are of a bright steel blue, except the middle of 
the disc of the head, a rounded patch near^the fore-margin of the 
pronotum, and a Larger posterior spot, wdiich are of a rich yellow 
* Ph. fulvo-widis, elytrls macula basali rbombea, vittaque obliqua post medium pallide testa- 
ceis, roseo-micantibus; alls fusco tesselatis. Long. corp. IJ". Habitat apud Cap. Bon, Spei. 
Handb. d. Eiit. Orthoptera, p. 349. 
Westwood, in Zoolog. Joum., vol. v., p. 442, pi. 22, fig. 1. I also figured a brilliant 
and rare variety of the same insect in the British Cyclopaedia of Natural Hist., Orthopterous 
Insects, fig. med. dext. 
Syn .—Mantis chalyhea, Serville, H, n. Orth., p. 202. ‘ 
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