The mantis, Mesopteryx platycephala, is redescribed with digital images. Although known from Assam, West Bengal and other areas, the mantis not recently collected or illustrated India so far perhaps a rare species. This short note aims to fill up lacuna.

Like other praying mantises, Hierodula membranacea has a single midline ear on the ventral surface of the metathorax. The ear comprises a deep groove with two tympana forming the walls. A tympanal organ on each side contains 30-40 scolopophorous sensillae with axons that terminate in the metathoracic ganglion in neuropil that does not match the auditory neuropil of other insects. Nymphal develo...

A new subspecies of the Asian mantis Hierodula patellifera (Audinet-Serville, 1839), daitoana ssp. nov. , is described based on specimens collected from Daito Islands, Ryukyus, Japan. This distinguished nominotypical H. in adulthood by relatively larger body size, number antennal segments, presence a white marking along dorsal-inner surface procoxa, and marginal spines procoxa comprising two la...