442 -Mr. Westwood’s characters of 
tudine vix longior, (quartam partem longitudinis abdominis vix quans,) 
lateribus fere rectis, absque dilatatione laterali, anticé haud angustatus. 
Oculi maximi rotundati. Caput muticum, vertice plano. © Pedes an- 
ticl maximi; femoribus brevibus crassissimis; femora 4 postica sim- 
plicia, quam in Mantide crassiora. Abdomen versus apicem acuminatum, 
apice ejus tegminibus alisque perfectis haud obtecto. Antenne sim- 
plices. 
Nora. Generi Mantidi (uta Servilleo restricto) affinis. Differt pro- 
thoracis brevitate, abdominis apice detecto, coloreque metallico. 
Sp. 1. Met. splendidus, Westw. 
Viridis nitidissimus; tegminibus cupreo-nitentibus; femoribus anticis 
macula centrali fulva. 
Variat colore purpureo, femoribus 4 posticis antieé subfulvis. 
Tas. XXII. Fig. 1.. 
Long. corp. lin. 14, Expans. tegminum lin, 22, 
Habitat in Malabaria. 
In Mus. nostr. 
ORTHOPTERA. Fam. Phasmide.* 
ASCHIPHASMA,}+ Westw. 
Corpus longum subcylindricum, alatum, tegminibus obsoletis. Caput 
fere quadratum angulis rotundatis, supra leve, haud tuberculatum. 
Oculi magni subfrontales. Ocelli nulli. Antenne corporis toti fere 
longitudine, frontales. Prothorax quadratus mesothoracis longitudinem 
fere equans, tuberculis duobus parvisanticis. Mesothorax paullo longior 
quam lJatus. Tegmina omnino obsoleta. Alz magne abdominis fere 
longitudine, semicirculares. Pedes et abdomen simplicia subcylindrica. 
Sp. 1. Asch. annulipes, Westw. 
2 Sordidé viridis; capite prothorace et mesothorace lineis notulisque 
* Although numerous instances occur in which the mesothoracic organs of 
flight are alone developed, this is the only insect in which I have hitherto noticed 
the metathoracic ones alone to exist. In all the specimens which I have seen 
the same structure prevails. 
+ A privativum, et occracpa tegmen, 
