1G2 A NEW MANTIDEOUS INSECT WITH POINTED EYES. 
Acanthops, Serv., has the body short .and comparatively broad, 
with the fore margin of the wing-covers sinuated, and the terminal 
segments of the abdomen dilated at the sides. Type, M. sinuata, 
Fabr. (fuscifolia Stoll, f. 14). See as to the synonymes of the 
species of this genus, Charpentier in Gercnar’s Zeitscli 1, 375; 
3, 299. Soutli America is the geographical station of this genus. 
The two remaining genera are very long and slender in form. 
Schizocepiiala, Serville, has the eyes porrected, the hind femora 
destitute of spines or lobes, and the abdominal setie elongated, 
slender, articulated, and attenuated to the tip. Type Mantis 
bicornis, Linn. An inhabitant of the East Indies. Dr. Burmeister 
has described a second species from the Berlin Museum. 
Toxodera, Serv. (Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, tom. 6, p. 25, pi. 2; 
and H. n. Orth. p. 168, pi. 5). The type of this singular genus 
(T. denticulata, Serv.) possesses conical eyes which are laterally 
extended. The fore posterior femora are furnished, along more 
than half their length, with three membranous lobes emarginate at 
the middle, and the apex of these femora is armed with four strong 
spines. The abdomen is terminated by two broad foliacious appen¬ 
dages, which appear to be articulated. This insect (which is 4i 
inches long) is a native of Java, and is unique in the Museum of 
the Jardin des Plantes. It appeared to me on an examination of 
this specimen that the apex of each of the ocular cones was not 
facetted but similar to the remainder of the skull. 
Notwithstanding various structural differences, I have considered 
the insect figured in the opposite plate as also belonging to the 
genus Toxodera; it is, however, a native of Senegal, where 
it represents its Javanese ally, as is also the case in the genus 
Harpax. 
TOXODERA (FIETEROCHiETA) tenuipes (Plate 41). 
Fusca, tegminibus brunneis, postice pallidis, alis inf urn at is, nigro fasciatis, cyaneo-iridcscentibus, 
coxis anticis longis, antice lobatis et spinosis, femoiibus anticis basi vix crassioribus, 
femoribus 4 posticis longis apice subtus foliolis duobus minimis instructs, supra inermi- 
bus, ccrcis aualibus Jatis foliatis, ut videtur 6-articulatis, oculis oblique porrectis: spina 
terminali nigra baud granulata* Long. corp. unc. 5. Expaus. tegm. unc. 4£. 
Inhabits Senegal. In thb collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
Obs. In the elongated form of the body and the dilated appendage at the extremity of the 
abdomen, these insects approach the Phasmidre, whilst in general characters they are very 
nearly allied to the typical Mantida?. 
The singular Orchidaceous plant represented in the plate is the Megaclinium maximum, 
Lind!., a native of Sierra Leone. 
* M, De Haan has formed Mantis rubicunda into a subsection of his Mantis C. with the 
character u Oculistrigonis acutis.’’ lie also gives to the genus Orthodera the character “oculi 
angulati,” but this is not correct. 
