o8 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Jan., 



MeasuremenU. 



Total length, 5.3.5 mm. 



Length of pronotum, 3 



Length of mesonotnm, 10.5 



Length of tegmina, 4 



Length of wings 14. 9 



Length of abdomen 30.5 



Length of anterior femora, 21.5 



Length of anterior til)ia3, 22.1 



Length of median femora, 12 



Length of posterior femora, 16 



Genus ANCHIALE Stal. 

 1S75. Anchiale Stal, Recensio Orthopterorum, III, pp. 36 and S4. 



Type. — Anchiale maculata (Olivier) {=Phasnia 7iecydaloides Stoll 

 [not of Linn.] and Phasma nccvimn Lichtenstein). 



Anchiale nsevia (Lichtenstein). 



1787. [Phasma] necydaloidcs Stoll, Xatuurli.ike Afbeeldingen en Beschry- 

 vingen, Spooken, pp. 8, 10 and 76, PI. Ill, fig. 8, PI. IV, fig. 11. [Am- 

 boina.] (Not Gryllus (Mantis) necydaloidcs Linnceus.) 



1792. Mantis maculata Olivier, Encvcl. l\Iethod., Ins., VII, p. 636. [Am- 

 boina.]-^^ (Not of Thunberg and Lundahl, 1784.) 



1802. [Phasma] noevium Lichten.stein, Trans. linn. Soc. London, \l, p. 13. 

 [Amboina.p^ 



Two rather immature females: Island of Obi, Moluccas. [Coll. of 

 Morgan Hebard.] 



One of these specimens has the right anterior liml) regenerated, the 

 whole leg not equalling the normal left femur in length. The sjm- 

 onymy of this species is very much involved, but after considerable 

 study 7icevia seems to be the correct name. 



Sharp^'^ has given some space to a discussion of the names of the 

 species of the genus, but as he did not have the Moluccan form, the 

 question as to a name for it was left unsettled. The nominal species 

 known to date are as follows : 



Anchiale nccvia (Lichtenstein). Aml^oina and Obi. 



Anchiale stolli Sharp. New Britain. 



Anchiale confusa Sharp. New Britain (Westwood credits this form, 

 which he calls maculata, to the Sandwich Islands). 



The insect figured and described by Blanchard^' from "Warou, on the 

 coast of Ceram, may represent a distinct form. 



•'^ Based on Stoll's figures. 



^« Willev, Zoological Results, I, p. 90. 



2' Voi/a'ge aii Pole Hud., ZooL, IV, p. 358, Orth., PL I, fig. 8. 



