PHASMID^ IN THE BEITISH .MUSEUM. 451 



Pharnacia PONDEROSA. 



Phamada ponderosa, Stal, CEfvers. Vet.-Akad. Fijrh. xxxiv. (10) p. tO (1877). 



Still briefly describes the male. The British Museum possesses a female from Luzon 

 which may belong to this species. It is dull testaceous, mottled with brown, and has 

 rudimentary lighter-coloured tegmina, very distinctly longitudinally lined \dth black 

 along the nervures. The operculum is long, nai-row, and pointed. Length 135 millim., 

 of tegmina 7 millim., of operculum 15 millim. 'J''he specimen is in too poor condition to 

 make it worth while to describe it in detail. 



Myronides Ppeiffer^, var. (?). 



Lonchodes Pfeifferce, Westw. Cat. Pliasm. p. 44, pi. v. fis^. 6. 



The types are from Ceram. There is a male specimen in the British Museum from 

 Ternate, differing chiefly in the greater length of the metanotum, which is one-fifth 

 longer than the median segment. In this it agrees witli the female from Ceram ; in the 

 male from the latter locality the median segment and metanotum are almost exactly of 

 equal length. But I will not venture to describe the Ternate insect as new on a single 

 specimen. 



V Lonchodes Whiteheadi, sp. n. 



Female. Brown, cylindrical, strongly granulated ; head with two short, broad horns 

 between the eyes ; prothorax with two raised tubercles in front ; all the parts of the 

 thorax and the joints of the abdomen with a short, raised tubercle behind ; middle legs 

 shorter than the front or hind legs ; front femora very slightly dentated on the inner 

 carina before the extremity ; middle femora with two rounded lobes beneath, not 

 dentated, before the extremity ; hind femora with only the lobe on the inner carina 

 developed ; middle legs with traces of broad yellow bands ; metathorax black on the 

 sides and on the hinder part above ; abdomen with black triangles on the sides, which 

 probably meet on the back of some of the hinder segments. (Colours altered.) 



Dimensions. 



Long, corporis 75 millim. 



„ capitis 6 „ 



„ pronoti 3^ „ 



„ mesonoti 20 „ 



„ metanoti, cum segmento mediano .... 13 „ 



„ segmenti mediani 3 „ 



„ femorum anticorum 22 „ 



„ ,, medianorum 15 „ 



„ ,, posticorum 2o „ 



Albay, S.E. Luzon [Whitehead Ea-pedition). 



