in the British Museum. 439 



long as the tibiae and tarsi together, front femora much waved 

 at the base. Tegmina almost quadrate, but with the angles 

 rounded off; a black raised line towards the costa, before 

 which the colour is yellowish. Wings rather short, costal 

 area green, membranous area rose-coloured. Abdomen with 

 the basal segments hardly so long as broad, but the four basal 

 segments suddenly narrowed and laterally compressed. 



ITab. Japan. 



Described from four specimens, scarcely varying at all. 



Genus Phasma, Licht. 



Phasma, Lichtenstein, Cat. Mus. Zool. Hamburg, iii. p, 77 (179G) ; 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vi. p. 9 (1802) ; Illiger, Kaf. Preuss. p. 499 

 (1798) ; Fabr. Suppl. Ent. Syst. p. 186 (1798). 



Lichtenstein and Fabricius enumerate many species under 

 this name, but fix no types. Illiger, however, mentions 

 gigas, Linn., and calamus and rossia, Fabr., as the types. 

 Latreille afterwards specified the type as rossia ; but none of 

 the three species mentioned by Illiger can be taken as the 

 type, for though all three species were mentioned by Lichten- 

 stein, he applies the name Mantis to them, not Phasma. 

 However, the first species mentioned by Lichtenstein under 

 the name of Phasma is a very close ally of gigas, L., figured by 

 Stoll as gigas (' Spectres/ pi. i. fig. 1) and described briefly 

 by Lichtenstein under the name of Phasma empusa. Conse- 

 quently Illiger's mention of P. gigas (apart from this being 

 the first species mentioned under Phasma both by Illiger and 

 Fabricius) fixes the closely allied P. empusa (Lichtenstein's 

 first species) as the type. 



Genus Eurycnema, Serv. 

 Eurycnema magniftca, sp. n. 



Long. corp. 200, exp. al. 215, long. tegm. 46, lat. tegtn. 

 20 mm. 



Female. — Yellowish green above, more or less varied with 

 whitish (colours probably changed) ; mesonotum rather long, 

 slender, and nearly smooth, transversely banded with black 

 beneath ; tegmina yellowish green, veined below with red ; 

 membrane sea-green. Wings sea-green, the opaque costal 

 area yellowish green, almost entirely red beneath, except on 

 the borders, the colour slightly showing through on the upper- 

 side. Legs strongly carinated, serrated, and spined, as usual 

 in the genus. 



Hub. (probably) New Guinea (Crowley Collection). 



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