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Show 586 MR. J. WOOD-MASON ON NEW MANTIDvE. [May 21, The anterior crest of the fore coxae is armed with eight bluntish spiniform tubercles, between some of which are one or two minuter ones ; the right fore tibia has fifteen teeth on each edge ; the four posterior legs are wanting. Total length about 32 millims.; length of pronotum 7*6 ; breadth of pronotum at supracoxal dilatation 4*3, at constriction behind dilatation 2*6 ; length of tegmina 26 ; length of abdomen 14, breadth of abdomen 8*5. Hab. Ceylon. Communicated by M r . F. Moore. There is also a specimen in the Hopeian collection at Oxford. HYMENOPUS BICORNIS. Mantis bicornis, Stoll, Spectres et Mantes, 1 787, pl. xi. figs. 44 ( 2 )» 44 A (nymph). Mantis coronata, Olivier, Encyl. Meth. 1792, Insectes, t. vii. p. 638. Empusa coronata, Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. t. iii. p. 91. Hymenopa coronata, Serville, Revue, p. 19. no. 1, et Hist. Nat. des Orthopt. 1839, p. 163 2- Hymenopus coronatus, Burm. Handb. d. Entom. 1839, vol. ii. p. 549. Hymenopus bicornis, Saussure, Mel. Orthopt. i. fasc. 3, p. 291. The larvae and nymphs, at any rate, of this species simulate blossoms, some specimens being rose-pink, others of a beautiful wax-white colour. The thighs of the four posterior pairs of legs are expanded into huge broad pear-shaped plates ; so that (according to Mr. S. E. Peal, who has discovered the species in Assam, many hundreds of miles from any of its hitherto recorded habitats) tbe immature insect when seated on a twig with thorax and abdomen raised at right angles to one another, with the fore legs drawn up out of sight beneath the thorax, and with the four expanded thighs spread out two on each side, the tarsi being brought to one spot, presents in form as well as in colour a most perfect and deceptive resemblance to a flower. The small Mantis (exactly resembling a pink orchis-flower) which, according to M r . Wallace, was shown to Sir Charles Dilke in Java, and was said to attract and devour butterflies, probably belongs to the same species. Hab. Sibsagar, Assam (S. E. Peal); Moluccas (Serville); Sunda Isles. The perfect insect is represented in one of the beautiful sketches of foliage and flowers made by Miss North in Java. PARABLEPHARIS KUHLII. Blepharis kuhlii, De Haan, Orthopt. Orient, p. 93, tab. 18. fig. 3, 2 • Parablepharis kuhlii, Saussure, Bull. Entom. Suisse, iii. p. 223 (1870); id. Mel. Orthopt. i. 1871, fasc. 3, p. 320, 2 • Hab. Java (De Haan); " les Indes Orientales?" (Saussure). A larva has been obtained by Mr. A. W . Chennell, of the Topographical Survey of India, in the Naga Hills, Assam. |