Syn. Mantis ocellaria, Drury, App. vol. 3.
Habitat: Coast of Africa.
Antennæ setaceous. The insect, when living, was probably green, but is now of a yellowish brown; the eyes, head, and thorax being of that colour. One-third of the tegmina, next the tips, is transparent, the remainder being green. In the centre is a yellow spot resembling an eye, encircled with black, whose centre is dark green, with a black margin at top. Wings transparent. Fore-legs yellow-brown. Femora strong, with two rows of spines, and a groove between to receive the tibiæ, which are furnished with a strong spine at the tip. Middle and hind legs having a small flap placed at the tips of the femora, and two tibial spurs.
"This rare and beautiful mantis was found in a savanna."—Smeathman.
PENTATOMA BICOLORATA.
Plate [XLIII]. fig. 2.
Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Heteroptera. Section: Geocorisa. Family: Pentatomidæ.
Genus. Pentatoma, Latreille. Cimex, Fabricius, Drury.
Pentatoma Bicolorata. Fusca, pronoti lateribus in spinam obtusam utrinque productis, scutello versus basin et ad apicem elytrorumque maculâ costali fulvis. (Long. Corp. lin. 7.)
Syn. Cimex rostratus, Drury, App. vol. 2.