DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW AUSTRALIAN PHASMAS — RAINBOW. 35 



ana] styles, 12-5; ovipositor, 42; anterior femora, 36-5; hind 

 femora, 40; tegmina, 40; greatest width of abdomen, 12*5; 

 tegmina, 14 ; wing, 56. 



Head pale yellow above, with broad median longitudinal bar of 

 bright blue, sides blue above, pea-green below ; face green ; eyes 

 black on narrow whitish wings ; occili bright, glassy, with a 

 reddish-brown tint ; antennae 25-jointed, slightly pubescent. 



Pro-notum green above, yellowish in the median line, white 

 laterally, yellow below with green margins; meso-notum yellow 

 with broad median bar of bright blue, sides pea-green in front, 

 darker behind, yellow below ; the upper surface, sides, and under 

 surface furnished with spines varying in size, those above and 

 below are blue, and those at the sides green ; the spines on the 

 ventral surface are uniform in size, ten in number, arranged 

 obliquely and in pairs, and surrounded with patches of blue ; 

 meta-notum yellowish in front, green behind, with a median longi- 

 tudinal line of blue, sides yellow in front, green behind, the lower 

 margins are also green, and furnished with a row of small green 

 spines ; ventral surface yellow, ornamented with four transverse 

 bars of blue, and armed with eight spines; of these the anterior bar 

 is the shortest and narrowest, the third and fourth is the longest 

 and broadest ; with the exception of the anterior bar, which is 

 horizontal, all are slightly curved in a forward direction, and 

 each bar is armed with a spine near its lateral extremity. 



Abdomen long, broadest ac the middle, tapering, bright green 

 above with narrow median line of blue, under-surface pea-green ; 

 anal styles long, green ; ovipositor projecting considerably beyond 

 the abdomen, green, boat-shaped, keeled below. 



Tegmina, elongate, ovate, green above, with white longitudinal 

 bars and patches, the bars suffused with purple ; underneath the 

 anterior margin is bright red, and edged with green. 



Wings : above, the costal area is bright green with white longi- 

 tudinal bars suffused with purple, and the base bright red ; 

 underneath, the entire surface is bright red also ; membranous 

 portion pea-green. 



Legs long, slender, with denticulated ridges, mottled with green 

 and yellow ; tibii of hind pair strongly spined on the inner side ; 

 first joint of tarsi longest, and the fifth longer than the fourth ; 

 claws long and strong. 



Hah. Narrabri. 



Three specimens similar to the one described, but with the 

 meso-notum less strongly spined, are in the collection of the Aus- 

 tralian Museum, and were taken at Wide Bay, Queensland. The 

 specimen from which the description is written was captured by 

 Mrs. Langhorne, Oreel Station, Narrabri. The Australian ver- 

 nacular name for these insects is " Native Ladies." 



