On a new Species of Stick-Insect. 4G3 



centre of the back being of a darker grey and the under 

 surface yellowish white — as well as by a longer snout and 

 smaller molars. 



Measurements in millimetres of E. tanala and E. Majori: — 



E.Majori(S 

 E. tanala S (M. 166), type, 



LXVII. — Description of a new Species of Stick-Insect (Plias- 

 midge) from British Central Africa. By W. F. KiRBY, 

 F.L.S., F.E.S., &c. 



Mrs. Moir, a lady whose husband is engaged on a coffee- 

 plantation at Lauderdale, British East Africa, has lately 

 returned to Scotland for the winter, and has brought with her 

 an unusually fine Phasraide, which has been secured for the 

 Natural History Museum at South Kensington. It appears 

 to be quite new, and 1 therefore describe it as 



Palophus Moirce. 



Female. — Deep chestnut-brown, inclining sometimes to 

 reddish and sometimes to black ; pubescent ; head with a 

 high double reddish crest, contiguous in front and sinuated 

 beiiind ; head above with two rather irregular rows of short 

 spines on each side of the median line, and some scattered 



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