74 ORTHOPTERA 



Section— &EESS0E1A. 

 Body long and narrow. Head exscrted. Legs slender, the femora 

 sometimes compressed or dilated. 



ramily — Mantid.t:. 

 Head free, vertical ; tliorax and abdomen elongate ; Avings large ; 

 front legs flattened, sharp, raptorial. Animal-feeders. 



Geniis-TENODERA. 



Burmeister. 



Prothorax very long, sti-ongly keeled. Superior wings sub- 



membranaceous, translucent, with some horny patches behind the 



principal longitudinal A'ein; the margin firmer than the space 



immediately behind the principal longitudinal vein. Entirely green. 



T. INTERMEDIA. Sciussure, Mitt. d. Schw. Ent. Ges. III., y^. 233 

 (1870) . 



Smaller than T. superstitione ; prothorax shorter ; base of the wings 

 with a brown spot ; anterior coxee finely denticulated. 



Female. Length, 85 mm. ; pronotum, 31 mm. ; elytra, 62 mm. 



New Zealand (Saussure). 



Family — Phasmidje. 

 Body linear, rod-like, with all the legs equal, and often lobate 

 dilatations of the femur and tibia. Vegetable-feeders. 



Division— APTEROPHASMINA. 

 iviiigs wai 

 arrived at their full growth 



Tegmina and wings wanting in both sexes when the insects have 



aenus-BACILLUS. 

 Latreille. 

 Body filiform ; thorax long ; the metathorax considerably elon- 

 gated, glabrous. Legs long or of moderate length, simple or armed 

 with small spines. Antennae very short, or at least not so long as the 

 thorax, with few (scarcely ever more than twenty) joints, the basal 

 joint often broad and flat. Tarsi of the fore legs with the basal joint 

 elongated. 



B. HooKERi. White, Votj. " Ereb." mid " Ten'or/' Ins., p. 24, pi. 6, /. 6 



(1846). Westwood, Cat. Orthopierous Insects in Brit. Mus., 



Pt. I., p. 14. 



Green; head obliquely keeled between the eyes and the base of 



the antennse, vertex Avith thin black lines, and tAvo black lines on the 



