106 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Jan., 



Phyllium bioculatum Gray. 



1832. [Phyllium'] hioculatmn Gray, in Griffith's Anim. Kingdom. X^^ p. 191, 

 PI. 63, fig. 3. [Locality unknown.] 



One female; Seychelles. (Dr. W. L. Abbott.) [U. S. N. :\I.] 

 This specimen is of a very pale yellowish-green color. 

 WestwoocP^ states regarding this species that the "male seems to 

 me scarcely to differ materially from that of Ph. Scythe." Such is 

 by no means true of the female, as this sex of the two species presents 

 very different appearances. 



Phyllium pulchrifolium Serville. 



1839. Phyllium piilchrifolium Serville, Orthopteres, p. 292. [Java.] 



Three specimens ; tw^o adult females, one immature male : 



Java. [A. N. S. Phila.] 



Near Buitenzorg, Java, July, 1897. (D. G. Fairchild.) [U. S. N. I\I.] 

 "Collected on leaves of Nephelium lappaceiim." 



The female from Buitenzorg has the tegmina and limbs Vv'ood-brown, 

 while the body is faded greenish. Information with the specimen 

 states the color is due to imperfect drying. Wliile this is ciuite likely 

 true of the body, it is hardly probable that the tegmina have changed. 

 In the event of the specimen having possessed brown tegmina, it would 

 approach the brown variety described by Lucas^^ from Batavi-i. 



Phyllium scythe Gray. 



1843. Phyllium Scythe Grav, Zoologist, I, p. 122, figure (on page 121). 

 [Sylhet.] 



One female; Trong, Lower Siam. (Dr. W. L. Abbott.) [U. S. N. 

 M.] 



This spcciiTicn differs slightly from the figure given by West wood, ^^ 

 the apex of the abdomen being more constricted, in fact somewhat 

 approaching -pulclirijolium in this respect. After carefully examining 

 the literature, it a]3pears very much as if the scythe and pidchrijolimn 

 were simply geograj^hic races of the same species, the Trong specimen 

 being a direct intermediate, both structurally and gcographicalh-. 

 Gray's reference of Haan's figure^^ of pulchrifolimn to scythe appears 

 erroneous, as the form of the abdomen and almost all the acces- 

 sory lobes of the limbs rei^resent true pulchrijolium. The Trong 

 specimen has the right posterior limb regenerated and alDout one-fifth 

 the normal size. 



58 Catol. Orth. his. Brit. Mus.. I, p. 175. 



'■>^ Bull. Soc. Ent. France (5), VII, p. xxxiii. 



«<> Cntal. Orth. Ins. Brit. Mus., I, PI. XXXI, fig. 2. 



^1 Natuurl. Gesch. Xederl. Ocerzeesche Bezitt., Insecta, PI. XV, fig. 6. 



