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CATALOGUE OF ORTHOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



12. (245.) Aschipasma Peleus. 

 Plate XV. fig. 4, female. 



Eloiigataiii, parallflum, cylindricum, inerme, fuscum, 

 nigio-sublineatum ; pro- et mesothorace oblongis ; tcgmi- 

 nibus spinseformibus ; alis fusco-albidis, area costali luteo- 

 fusca, albido-tessellata ; pedibus brevibus, hirsutis, tibiis 

 obscure ammlatis (focm.). 



Long. Corp. feni. lin. 24 ; cap. lin. U; anten. lin. 10 ; 

 proth. lin. 2; mesoth. lin. 3^ ; mctath. lin. 31 ; abdom. 

 lin. ll+lin. 3 = lin. 14; alar, expans. lin. 2.5-27 ; lat. alee, 

 lin. 7-8. 



Perlamorpha Peleus, G. R. Gray, Spi. Phasm. p. 22 (nee 

 SemUe, H. N. Orth. p. 277 = A. Servilleanum). 

 Burmeisfei; Ilanilb. d. Ent. ii. 2. p. 583. 

 Phasnia (Ascephasnia) Peleus, Be Haan, Orth. Orient. 

 pp. 113, 115. 



Huh. In jNIalabar et Malacca {I). Wallace). In Mus. 

 Saunders et B.M. 



This species is considerably elongated, and is further di- 

 stinguished by the minute spiniform tegmina. It is closely 

 allied to A. Damius, but has shorter legs and larger wings. 

 The accompanying figure is taken from a specimen from 

 Malacca, which agrees with the original type in the British 

 Museum, except that the wings are slightly longer and 

 broader. The head is small, luteous brown, obscurely 

 marked with brown spots and lines. The anteunse are 

 rather short and very slender ; the joints pale at the base, 

 dark at the extremity. The prothorax is about one-fourth 

 longer than wide, cylindrical, with a slightly impressed 

 median line. The mesothorax is rather wider than the 

 prothorax, and about twice as long as it is broad ; its sur- 

 face is slightly granulose, and varied with paler dots and 

 small dark spots in front and behind. The tegmina are 

 reduced to two small, acute, obliquely elevated black spines. 

 The metathorax is about the length of the mesothorax, its 

 hinder division occupying about two-thirds of its whole 

 length. The abdomen is long and slender ; the basal seg- 

 ments with two black spots in front of each ; the three ter- 

 minal joints short. The operculum swollen at the base ; 

 the apex much compressed, extending to the middle of the 

 ninth dorsal segment. The wings are moderate-sized, pale 

 brown, with the longitudinal veins rather darker, the trans- 

 verse ones scarcely visible ; the costal area is luteous brown, 

 with numerous small, irregular, more or less distinct whitish 

 spots. The legs are short, setose, single ; the fore femora 

 thick, scarcely excavated at the base ; the tibiae slender, 

 and slightly ringed with pale luteous ; hind legs uniformly 

 coloured beneath. 



Plate XV. Fig. 4. The female, of the natural size. 4 a. The 

 extremity of the abdomen seen sideways. 



13. (246.) Aschipasma crudele, Tf'estw. 

 Plate IX. fig. 7, female. 



Obscure luteum fusco variegatum ; meso- et metanotis 

 antice macida lutea notatis ; tegminibus brevibus, erectis, 

 spinffiformibus ; alis pallide fuscescentibus, costa fusco-lutea 

 albo maculata striolaciue media obscura ; pedibus brevibus, 

 hirtis, femoribus anticis basi jiaulo curvatis, omnibus ante 

 apicem annulo obscuro tibiisque apice nigris (foem.). 



Long. Corp. foem. lin. 26 ; cap. lin. 6| ; proth. lin. 2 ; 

 mesoth. hn. 3; metath. lin. 4 ; abdom. lin. 13-hlin. 2|= 

 lin. 151; alar, expans. lin. 35 ; lat. alee, lin. 11. 



Hab. In insula Ceylon. B.M. 



This is one of the largest species of the genus, and is 

 well distinguished by its short mesothorax, spiniform teg- 

 mina, setose legs, and the round spots of the costa of the 

 wings. The head is small ; the eyes prominent, but not 

 so wide as the mesothorax; it is dirty luteous, with a 

 square black patch in the middle of the hind jtart, and with 

 two blackish streaks behind the eyes. The antennse are 

 slender, with the joints gradually elongated, and with the 

 tips of the joints dusky ; they are nearly destitute of hairs 

 (the tips are broken off in the only specimen I have seen). 

 The prothorax is longer than the head, dirty luteous, with 

 a dark patch in the middle of the fore margin, and a dark 

 lateral spot behind the eyes. The mesothorax, as well as 

 the metathorax, has a large pale luteous spot in the middle 

 of its anterior dorsal portion. The abdomen is dirty lu- 

 teous, considerably varied with dusky markings ; the three 

 terminal dorsal segments are short, the seventh being con- 

 stricted at the base. The operculum is slightly boat- 

 shaped, and extends nearly to the extremity of the last 

 dorsal segment ; the anal styles are deflexed and obtuse. 

 The tegmina are small, erect, and spiniform at the extre- 

 mity, the base of each curved and dilated. The wings are 

 very pale brown, slightly darker along the apical margin ; 

 the costa darker luteous brown, varied with a considerable 

 number of white spots, the principal longitudinal vein 

 being clouded with black for about half its basal length ; 

 the other veins, transverse as well as longitudinal, are 

 whitish. The legs are short, rather thick, and hirsute ; the 

 fore femora are slightly curved at the base ; the femora are 

 all dirty pale luteous, with a dusky ring near the extremity ; 

 the tibia: are also black at the tips, which are slightly di- 

 lated ; the tarsi are also annulated with dusky, the basal 

 joint being about as long as the three following. 



Plate IX. Fig. 7. The female insect, of the natural size. 7 a. 

 One of the tegmina. 7 b. The terminal segments of the 

 abdomen seen sideways. 



