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Show 1878.] MR. J. WOOD-MASON ON NEW MANTID^E. 585 Genus CREOBROTER1, Serville. C R E O B R O T E R PICTIPENNIS, n. sp. (Plate X X X V I . fig. 8.) 2 . Closely allied to Cr. apicalis, Sauss. ( $ ), from Assam, from which it differs in the form of the pronotum (which is slenderer and more distinctly quadrilobular), in its much narrower and less-depressed abdomen (a part which in the species mentioned, as also in Cr. urbanus $, is greatly dilated and suborbicular and depressed), in its less robust fore legs, and notably in the colour of the wings. The head also is a little smaller, its frontal spine much the same. Organs of flight in repose, in the dried insect, extending by about a seventh of their length beyond the extremity of the fusiform abdomen, which is longitudinally strongly roof-shaped below. Tegmina bright green, yellow at the very base, furnished with a well-defined subquadrate or suborbicular brightyellow spot a short distance from the base, and with a still richer dead-yellow oval ocellus placed a little obliquely across the middle; this is bordered both on its external and on its internal margin by a curved black line ; the black line that borders the base of the ocellus is but slightly curved or is a smaller segment of a larger circle, and sends forwards and inwards at its posterior end a small process, so as to present the appearance of a curved arrow that has lost one of its barbs; external black line strongly curved, or a larger segment of a smaller circle; it is preceded by an opalescent line rather broader than itself, and upon the veins and veinlets traversing which the yellow of the ocellus is continued; this is marked with three black dots, all placed in the same straight or slightly curved line, each upon one of the sectors of the organ ; the yellow of the ocellus flows out, as it were, in an irregular stream from between the black bounding lines to the sutural margin, accompanied by the translucent white line only ; but at the opposite side its exit is barred by the polished and slightly paler yellow oblong stigma, which there quite blocks up the interval between the ends of the black lines; the anal gusset is spotted with brown, paling towards the hinder margin, the network being pale green, very narrowly lined with hyaline, and its membranous meshes brown. Wings tricolorous, opaque at the base ; the basal third of the posterior and the basal two thirds of the anterior field of a beautiful semiopaque cream-colour, slightly tinged with green ; this is succeeded in the former by a broad band of clear brown (with dark amethystine reflections) lined with hj aline along the transverse vein-lets, and in the latter by a narrower band of semiopaque dull vinaceous, the rest of both fields being throughout hyaline, slightly tinged and clouded with very pale greenish white, and having the venation rather distinct and also coloured pale greenish white. The head, the pronotum, and the outsides of the fore legs bright green, concolorous with the elytra, variegated (the two first-named) and banded (the last) with yellow, much, in fact, as in Cr. apicalis. 1 Neither "Creobrota" nor "Creobotra," nor "Creoboter," but "Creobroter," from K-peas, flesh, and j3pojrrip, an eater, Kpeofipiorrip, so formed on the analogy of KpeoTrwkqs, icpeoipuyos, K. T. A. Puoc ZOOL. Soc-1878, No. XXXVIII. 38 |