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and has several very strong and large spines or 
processes. The abdomen is edged, almost through- 
out its whole length, with a continued series of 
small spines, to the number of five on the side of 
each individual segment: the extreme segments 
are without spines. The thighs or first joints of 
the lower pair of legs are in this insect remark- 
ably strong, of a somewhat triangular shape, and 
beset with some strong spines j but the tibiae or 
second joints are armed with far larger and 
stronger ones. The upper and middle pair of 
legs are of a nearly similar structure in propor- 
tion, but much less strongly spined. The colour 
of all the legs is green, tinged with brown; the 
spines blackish: the general colour of the thorax, 
abdomen, and head is now brown, buf might 
probably have been green in the living animal. 
The wings are scarcely larger than the elytra or 
wing-sheaths, and seem originally to have been 
reddish, a tinge of that colour still pervading 
some parts of the wings: the tips are green: these 
wings are very strongly veined with brown fibres : 
the wing-cases are of a strong opake green, and 
were doubtless more vivid in the living insect: 
they have a great resemblance to a pair of leaves. 
The mouth has four palpi, which are rather long, 
and under the mouth are situated two leaf-shaped 
organs, perhaps belonging to the action of that 
part. The antennaB are v anting, the first joints 
alone remaining. The abdomen is terminated by 
a kind of boat-sbaped organ, the keel of which 
possesses a considerable space beneath the abdo- 
