PHASMID^ IN THE BRITISH :MUSEUM. 467 



Since the above dcscrii)tion was written, another new species of this genus has been 

 received from Somali-land, obtained l)y Mr. and Mrs. Lort Phillips, after whom I have 

 much pleasure in naming it. Mrs. Pliillips rescued it from a tame monkey, which 

 caught it and was about to eat it. 



IscHNOPODA Phillipsi, sp. n. (Plate XL. figs. 3, 3 a.) 



Female. Grey, bead strongly tuberculate, and with a high double laminated crest 

 above, between the eyes. Behind the crest a narrow but well-marked groove runs back- 

 ward nearly to the extremity of the prothorax ; the rest of the thorax and the basal 

 segments of the abdomen are marked with a slight median carina. The insect is more 

 or less granvilated, most strongly on the head and thorax, and the prothorax is marked 

 witli a deep transverse groove just behind the front legs. Mesothorax with two sti^ong 

 spines at two-fifths of its length, opposite to each other and nearly upright ; behind the left- 

 hand one is a smaller tubercle. Abdomen with sei^ments i-7 witli slight crests on each 

 side before the extremity, those on the 5th segment largest ; tegmina grey, moderately 

 long, with a rather pointed pyramidal elevation near the base ; costal area of wings grey, 

 with a black band near the base, and a slight elevation towards the costa before the 

 middle ; wings about half as long as broad, black, with yellowish-hyaline spots, running 

 from the costa in irregular rows, fading away beyond the middle, at least on the outer 

 half of the wings, right front femora with three laminations ahove, the terminal one 

 largest, and another beyond tlie middle in front ; left with only the upper terminal 

 one slightly marked, and the front one reduced to a spine ; right front tibise with 

 two strong triangular laminse on the front edge ; left with 3 smaller ones, the second 

 double ; first joint of tarsi about as long as the remainder, and crested for its whole 

 length ; middle femora grey, banded with brown, and with foliaceous elevations 

 towards the base and extremity beneath, and two before the middle, above ; tibite with 

 two foliaceous crests above, one towards the base, the other beyond the middle ; 

 hind femora with a triangular elevation towards the extremity beneath, and tibiae with 

 three or four above. 



The metathorax and median segment are unusually well separated in this species. 



Dimensions. 



Long, corporis 185 millim. 



„ capitis 8 „ 



,, pi'onoti 10 „ 



„ mesonoti 30 „ 



,, metanoti 9 „ 



„ segmenti mediani 17 „ 



„ tegminum "23 ,, 



Exp. al 114 „ 



Long, femorum anticorum 52 „ 



„ ,, medianorum -41 „ 



,, ,, posticorum 43 „ 



Hub. Somali-land. 



