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wood's fine and illustrated but costly " Catalogue of Orthopterous 

 Insects: Part I.— Phasmidse " of 1859, supplemented by Henry 

 de Saussure's voluminous " Melanges Orthopterologiques " 

 (illustrated), 1869-71, with several minor works. In 1875 C. 

 Stal published his still indispensable work (in Latin) " Recencio 

 Orthopterorum," in the third part of which he furnished a 

 systematic key for the classification of all the genera after the then 

 known species of this family, and some time later some modifi- 

 cations in his "Observations " (1875) and " Orthoptera Nova ex 

 Insula Philippinis Descripti." 



The system elaborated in the first-mentioned work by Stal is 

 that upon which the arrangement of the now forthcoming list has 

 been based, and among which the genera and species described 

 more recently have been intercalated, as well as I was able, but 

 subject to correction probably. 



The latest classificatory work known to me is Brunner von- 

 Wattenwyl's " Re'vision du Systeme des Orthopteres," 1893, in 

 combination with descriptions of the Burma species. But as only 

 a part of Stal's genera are therein mentioned it could not be 

 availed of for the purposes of the list. 



The following enumeration, however, shows the order in which 

 Stal's genera are arranged, and will or may assist curators of 

 larger collections of Australian Phasmids to arrange them accord- 

 ingly, if so minded : — 



Family — Phasmids, Brunner, Rev. Orth. 

 Tribe I. — Lanchodides {op. ci>., p. 81), 



Myronides, Lanchodes, Dixippus, Hyrtacus, Promachus. 

 Tribe II. — Bacunculides {op. cit., p. 82). 



No Australian, &c., species. 

 Tribe III. — Bacterides {op. cit., p. 83). 



Phibalosoma (to include Hermarchus, Stal), Bacteria, Bac- 

 tridium, Asprenas (Neanthes = female of Asprenas), 

 Orxines. 

 Tribe IV. — Necroscides {op. cit., p. 83). 



Necrosia. 

 Tribe V. — Clitumnides {op. cit., p. 87). 



Clitarchus, Pachymorpha, Karabidion, Eurycantha, Canachus. 

 Tribe VI. — Acropphyllides {op. cit., p. 97). 



Tropidoderus, Diura, Extatosoma, Podocanthus, Graefifea, 

 Acrophylla, Ctenomorpha, Cyphocrania, Anchiale, 

 Vetilia. 

 Tribe VII. — Cladomorphides {op. cit., p. 98). 



Heteropteryx, Pylaemenes. 

 Tribe VIII. — Anisomorphides {op. cit., p. 98). 



No Australian, &c., species. 

 Tribe IX. — Phasmides {op. cit., p. 99). 



Metriotes, Prisopus, Leosthenes. 



