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of siccifolium, scythe, yulchri folium, and bioculatum. In reply, 

 Mr. Kirby tells me that this species is apparently crurifolium,^ 

 which Gray confused with his previously described bioculatum. 

 " It has nothing to do with Phyllium siccifolium, which does not 

 occur in Ceylon." He also states that /''. alhcmysus can be recog- 

 nized at once by the hinder edge of the front femora being entire, 

 and that P. agathyrsus " seems to differ from P. crurifolium in 

 having the hinder edge of the front femora more deeply and 

 irregularly excavated." 



I 



X 4 



Pig 2. (a) Egg of Pulchriphyllium crwnfolium 



(b) Do. Phyllium athanysus ' 



Fig 3. (c) Femur of front right limb of P.crurifolium I , ^ 



(d) 



Do. 



do. Phyllium athanysus 



Of these three species, crurifolium is comparatively abundant. 

 Native boys collect them in considerable numbers, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Kandy. They find them by waiting under the trees 

 that they are known to affect and watching for falling pieces of 

 green leaves dropped by the feeding insects. This species is very 

 easily raised from eggs laid by captive females. 



I have met with very few examples of athanysus. 



Agathyrsus is quite unknown to me, though it is recorded only 

 from Ceylon. If the "more deeply and irregularly excavated 

 hinder edge of the front femora " is the only distinction between 

 this species and crurifolium^ then a great number of bred exam- 

 ples of the latter might be classed as agathyrsus, for very few 



