4-10 Mr. W. F. Kit by — Notes on Phasmidae 



This splendid species is one of the largest of the winged 

 Phasmidse. It is allied to E. versirubra, Serv. (herculeana, 

 Char]).) j from Java, but is abundantly distinct by the longer, 

 more slender, and smooth mesonotum, the much longer tegmina, 

 not marked with white above, and the longer wings, with the 

 costal area not distinctly red at the base above, but almost 

 entirely red below. 



Eurycnema viridissima, sp. n. 



Long. corp. 186-195, exp. al. 170-175, long. tegm. 38-42, 

 lat. tegm. 20 mm. 



Female. — Green ; head and pronotum mostly whitish, witli 

 three green bands on the former and two on the latter ; abdo- 

 men with white incisions and a slender white line on each 

 side; pronotum paler on the sides than in the middle, smooth, 

 or with a few small nodules. Meso- and metapectus with a 

 double row of dark green nodules placed on transverse spots of 

 the same colour; metapleura with a row of spines. Tegmina 

 bright green, streaked and spotted with white ; the white 

 spaces are veined with red beneath. Wings sea-green, costal 

 area tinged with red at the base, and sending out a broad 

 longitudinal white streak nearly to the margin ; under surface 

 with the red colouring occupying a corresponding space to 

 this white streak and with most of the veins red on the basal 

 third of the wing and along the course of the pale stripe. 

 Legs green, somewhat irregularly banded and spotted with 

 whitish. Eggs smooth, oval, black, and shining. 



Ilab. Moreton Bay and North Australia. 



Differs from the North-Australian E. versifasctata, Serv., 

 in the much longer wings and tegmina, and in the colour of 

 the latter, which have only one broad longitudinal streak in 

 E. versifasciata. 



The Museum possesses specimens of Eurycnema from 

 Timor and Timor-Laut, but not in sufficiently good condition 

 to be determined. The only described species not represented 

 in the Museum is E. Beauvoisi, Serv., from Java, in which 

 the pronotum is stout and granulated, and the tegmina and 

 the costal area of the wings are uniform bright green. 



Subfam. X. Eumycanthinje. 

 The genera Karabidion, Eurycantha, and Canaclius are 

 placed by Brunner at the end of his Clitumnidaj, but they 

 have so little resemblance to the other genera of that family, 

 and so much (except in the tibiae being carinated to the tips) 

 to the Heteropteryginse, that I think it better to remove them 

 to the neighbourhood of the latter insects. 



