430 MODERN CLASSIFICATION OJF INSECTS. 



with a lateral membrane. In several of the genera, the eyes terminate 

 in an acute point. Cheradodes, Hymenopus, &c., and an extraor- 

 dinary species from Malacca (Deroplatys desiccata Westw.), have the 

 prothorax, or thighs, fm'nished with large flat membranes. The genus 

 Toxodera of Serville seems to connect this family with the Phasmidse, 

 the abdomen being furnished with dorsal plates and apical folioles, as 

 in some species of the latter family. 



The third section, Ambulatoria, comprises the single family 

 Phasmid.^*, a tribe of exotic insects of the most extraordinary forms, 

 long united in the same family with the Mantidse, but from which 

 they are at once distinguished by the fore legs being of the ordinary 

 form, and fitted, like the rest, for walking rather than running, as in 

 the Blattida?. From the remaining Orthopterous insects they are 

 distinguished by the hind legs not being saltatorial. 



The body is generally long and slender {Jig. 53. l. Phasma (Diura) 

 Japetus G. R. Gray, New Holland, reduced to about half the natural 

 length). The head is of moderate size, of an oval, subdepressed 

 form {fig. 53. 2.), porrected, with large globular eyes, in front of which 

 the antennae are placed, which are variable in form, but ordinarily 

 long, slender, and composed of a great number of articulations. The 



* BiBLioGR. Refer, to the PnASMiDiE. 



StoJl. Representation des Spectres, &c. 



Lichtenstein. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. vi. 



Parkinson, in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. iv. (Phasma dilatatum). 



Serville, in Ann. Sc. Nat. torn. xxii. 



Saint Fargeau and Serville, in Encyclop. Methodique, torn. x. 



Graij. Monograph, of G. Phasma (Entom. of Australia, parti.), 4 to. 1 833. — 



Ditto, Synopsis of Phasmidas, 8vo. Lond. 1835. — Ditto, in Mag Nat. Hist. 



new series, No. 3. — Ditto, in Trans. Ent. Soc. vol. i. 

 Boisduval. Voy. de 1' Astrolabe. 



Leach, in Risso Hist. Nat. Europ. Merid. (Phantoma). 

 Guilding, in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. (Phasma cornutum). 

 BrulU. Exped. Sclent. Moree. 



Westwood, in Zool. Journ. ( Aschiphasma, Perlamorpha Curt). 

 Donovan. Insects of India. 



