On a new Species of Stick-Insect. 



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centre of the back being of a darker grey and the under 

 surface yellowish white — as well as by a longer snout and 

 smaller molars. 



Measurements in millimetres of E. tanala and E. Majori: — 



E.Majori(S 

 JE. tanala (^ (M. 166), type, 

 (M. 1358), measured in 



Lengtli of head and 



body. . 



„ tail .... 



„ hind foot 



type. 



151 



189 



31 



24 



the flesh. 



141 

 154 



27 



19 



K Majori S 

 (M. 430). 



143 



154 

 25 

 21-5 



E.Majori(S 

 (M. 636). 



145 



164 

 26 

 25-5 



Measurements of skulls : — 



E. tanala. 



A 



E. Majori. 



type 

 Basal length 35 



M. 1358 

 (Sh (M.1515), 



Absolute length 

 Length of nasals . . 



„ frontals . 



„ parietals. 

 Length of upper 



molar series . . 

 Length of lower 



molar series . . 



41-6 

 16 

 13 

 7-3 



6-5 



34-2 

 41 

 17 

 13 

 7 



6-5 



M. 1510 



35 

 40 

 16-7 

 12 

 6-5 



5-5 



5-5 



M. 166, 



type(d). 

 30-6 

 36-2 

 14-2 

 12 

 0-5 



66 



(M. 159), 



s. 



31 



14 

 12 

 6-5 



63 



6-3 



Hah. Forest of the Independent Tanala of Ikongo, in the 

 neighbourhood of Vinanitelo, thirty miles south of Fiana- 

 rantsoa. 



LXVII. — Description of a new Species of Stick-Insect (Phas- 

 midge) from British Central Africa. "By W. F. KiRBY, 

 F.L.S., F.E.S., &c. 



Mrs. Moir, a lady whose husband is engaged on a coffee- 

 plantation at Lauderdale, British East Africa, has lately 

 returned to Scotland for the winter, and has brought with her 

 an unusually fine Phasmide, which has been secured for the 

 Natural History Museum at South Kensington. It appears 

 to be quite new, and I therefore describe it as 



Palophus Moirce. 



Female. — Deep chestnut-brown, inclining sometimes to 

 reddish and sometimes to black ; pubescent ; head with a 

 high double reddish crest, contiguous in front and sinuated 

 behind ; head above with two rather irregular rows of short 

 spines on each side of the median line, and some scattered 



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