150 J. Wood-Mason — On Phasmidce. [July, 



streaks, one median and two lateral, pass along the whole length of the body 

 from the head to the end of the 6th abdominal segment. Both meso- and 

 metathorax are dilated at either end hut especially at the insertion of the 

 legs, and have each a raised median dorsal carina. The six basal abdominal 

 segments are slightly expanded at each end, as in spirit specimens of the 

 female ; the 7th and 8th are shorter than the preceding, sub-equal, and 

 gradually widen, the former from the base to the apex, the latter from the 

 apex to the base ; the last is scarcely longer than these, and cleft for rather more 

 than a third of its length, but the sides of the cleft are so closely approximat- 

 ed that no hiatus is visible as in many other species ; seen from the side, this 

 segment terminates in an obtuse, scarcely deflexed tip. The legs are devoid 

 of all traces of the foliaceous lobes so conspicuous in the female, but present the 

 same general structure ; the intermediate femora are just perceptibly curved, 

 and the four posterior tibiae have a few inconspicuous spinules towards the 

 apical end. 



Total length, 4 in. 1\ lin., ant. 15|, head 2, proth. If, mesoth. 12, me- 

 tath 11, abd. 24 + 6 = 30 lin., ant. legs 19 + 22 + 6£ = 4 in., inter, legs 

 12 -f- 12 + 5 = 2 in. 5 lin., post, legs 15 + 16 + 4£ = 3 in. 



Hab. Samagooting, Naga Hills, with the female. Collected by Cap- 

 tain Butler. 



The author exhibited the specimens referred to in the preceding note, 

 and also invited the attention of the meeting to the following fine series of 

 Australian insects belonging to the same family : 



Lonchodes, n. sp., $ 2 . Hab. N. Queensland. 



LopapJms coccophagus, G. B,. Gray, $. Hab. Samoa. 



Cyphocrania Goliath, Gray, ? . 



Oypliocrania JEnceladus, Gray, $ 2 . 



Acrophylla violascens, Leach, $ 2 . 



Podacanthus Typhon, Gray, $ Hab. Champion Bay, N. W. Australia. 



Podacanthus viridiroseus, Curtis, 2 . 



Tropidoderus Childreni, Gray, $ 2 et. 9 var. 



Extatosoma tiaratum, MacLeay, $ 2 et larva. 



The reading of the following papers was postponed. 



1. Authorities for the History of the Portuguese in India. By T. W. 

 H. Tolbort, Esq., C. S. 



2. Note on two copper-plate grants of Govinda Chandra of Kanouj- 

 By Babu Rajendralala Mitra. 



