448 Notes on PhasmiJaj in the British Museum. 



Fseudo2)hasma Camhridgei, sp. n. 



Female. — Head broader than long, testaceous, with a 

 narrow brown carina above, expanding and ceasing in a 

 small triangular spot between the antennae ; the sides of the 

 head nearly to the level of the upper part of the eyes are 

 black ; face testaceous, a transverse reddish mark in front 

 below the level of the antennae ; palpi reddish brown, the 

 inner side and terminal joint more yellow. The antenna are 

 finely ciliated (18 joints remain), testaceous yellow to tlie 

 eleventh joint and then black, with pale rings towards the 

 base of the twelfth segment, and on the extremity and base 

 of the fourteenth and lifteenth and sixteenth and seventeenth 

 respectively, and at the tip of the eighteenth. The scape, 

 second joint, and base o£ the third are thickened ; the third is 

 nearly as long as the fourth and fifth together, the fifth being the 

 shortest, the rest gradually lengthening, though the eighteenth 

 is a little shorter than the preceding; all the joints beyond 

 the second are long and cylindrical. Prothorax and raeso- 

 thorax testaceous above, with a median groove; the thorax, 

 below the lateral carinse, and the abdomen are black. The 

 hinder two-fifths of the mesothorax is raised; the front part is 

 bordered on the lateral carinas with a row of short sharp 

 spines, the flat space between being sparingly and irregularly 

 granulated. The tegulee are humped, strongly reticulated, 

 and testaceous yellow inside to the summit of the hump, and 

 black outside. The wings are dark reddish brown on the 

 costal area and greyish brown on the membranous area. 

 The legs are testaceous, the femora black, testaceous at the 

 tips beneath on the first four femora, and wholly so beneath 

 on the hind femora. The trochanters and coxje are wholly 

 blackish. The terminal segments of the abdomen are 

 carinatcd above and provided with a deep pouch below ; the 

 ccrci are short, thick, and obtuse. The legs are long and 

 slender, the middle legs shortest. 



Dimensions. 



mm. 



Long, corporis 53 



„ capitis 4 



„ pronoti 3|^ 



„ mesonoti 8 



Exp. al 57 



Long. fern, aut 20 



Hah. Forest, Santarera, Lower Amazons, March 1896. 



