DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW AUSTRALIAN PHASMAS — RAINBOW. 37 



the right being entirely bright green, while that on the left has a 

 large creamy-whitish patch. In connection with this it must be 

 explained that when at rest the latter is always folded uppermost, 

 and is therefore exceedingly beneficia^ to the insect, assisting it 

 to elude detection by predatory foes, the whitish patch in con- 

 trast with the bright green portion having the appearance of a 

 green leaf lighted by the sun's rays filtering through the foliage. 



The specimen from whicli the above description was written, 

 and which therefore forms the type of the species, was presented 

 to the Museum by Miss Ausell, of Paddington ; in addition to 

 this, we have in our cabinet collection a specimen taken by Mr. A. J. 

 North, of the Australian Museum, at Ashfield, in 1895. 



CATALOGUE of the DESCRIBED PHASMID^ op 

 AUSTRALIA. 



By W. J. Rainbow, Entomologist. 



Family PHASMlDiE. 

 Genus Bacillus, Latr. 



B. hrunneus, G. R. Gray, Ent. Aust., pi. vii., fig. 3 ; Syn. Phasm., 



p. 21. 

 Burm., Handb. d. Ent. ii., 2, p. 562. 

 Westwood, Cat. of Orthop. Insects of the British Museum, 



Pt. 1, Phasmidfe, p. 12. London, 1859. 

 Hah. Perth, W. Australia. 



B. ausiralis, Charpentier, Orth. Descr. (^ et ? ., pi. Ivii. 

 Westwood, loc. cit., pp. 12 and 179. 

 Hab. Australia. 



B. dolomedes, Westwood, loc. cit., p. 13, pi. v., fig. 4. 

 Hab. Australia. 



B. peristhenes, Westwood, loc. cit., p. 13, pi. vii., figs. 1, la., ^, 

 pi. viii., figs. 2, 2a., $ . 

 Hah. Australia. 



B. peridromes, Westwood, loc. cit., pp. 13-14, pi. viii., figs. 2h., 2c, 

 Hab. Australia. 



Genus Pachymorpha, Gray. 

 P. squalida, $ var., loc. cit., p. 15, pi. xxii., figs. 4, 4a., 46. 

 Bacillus squalidus, Hope MS. 



G. R. Gray, Ent. Aust., p. 3, fig. 2 ; Syn. Phasm., p. 21 



(Pachymorpha squalida). 

 Seville, H. n. Orth., p. 260. 

 Burm., Handb. d. Ent, ii., 2, p. 562. 

 Hab. Australia, 



