in the British Museum. 447 



Dimensions. 



6. 2. 



mm. mm. 



Long, corp ,03 7L 



v tegm 6 10 



Exp. al 64 102 



Long. fern, ant 18 22 



Ilab. Nauta (Degand). 



Described from one male and one female, both in rather 

 poor condition. 



Genus PsEUDOPHASMA, Kirb. 

 Pseudophasma i?ica } sp. n. 



Male. — Black ; head scarcely broader than long, pronotum 

 half as long again as broad, granulated, speckled with yel- 

 lowish, and with the lateral carina narrowly yellowish ; 

 a deep oblique depression before each of the front angles' 

 mesonotum granulated with yellowish, metanotum & and 

 base of abdomen rufous above; tegmina broadly oval, the 

 costa greatly arched, reticulated with yellow, the inter- 

 mediate space brown, and a large, black, obliquely oval spot 

 before the extremity. Costal area of wings dark brown, 

 yellowish, and with yellowish transverse nervures towards 

 the base ; membranous area smoky hyaline. 



Female. — Upper surface of head, pro- and mesonotum 

 brown, bounded by the black colour of the sides ; tegmina 

 with the black blotch much larger, curving round to the base ; 

 area behind uniform light brown. Costal area of wings 

 light brown, mottled with darker; base pale; metanotum 

 with borders and sutures varied with yellow, and basal 

 segments of abdomen indistinctly marked with yellow. 

 Antennae black, banded in the female only with ferruginous 

 towards the extremity. 



Dimensions. 



6. 2- 



mm. mm. 



Long, corp 47 77 



„ mesonoti 5 G 



Exp. al 70 12-J 



Ilab. Palcazu, Peru. 



A fine species, belonging to the same group as P. phthisicum 

 Linn. ; but in that species the tegmina are much raised and' 

 the femora are reddish at the base. 



