PHASMA. 



and has several very strong and large spines or 



processes. The abdomen is edged, almost through- 



out its whole length, with a continued series of 



small spines, to the number of five on the side of 



each individual segment: the extreme segments 



are without spines. The thighs or first joints of 



the lower pair of legs are in this insect remark- 



ably strong, of a somewhat triangular shape, and 



beset with some strong spines ; but the tibiae or 



second joints are armed with far larger and 



stronger ones. The upper and middle pair of 



legs are of a nearly similar structure in propor- 



tion, but much less strongly spined. The colour 



of all the legs is green, tinged with brown; the 



spines blackish : the general colour of the thorax, 



abdomen, and head is now brown, but might 



probably have been green in the living animal. 



The wings are scarcely larger than the elytra or 



wing-sheaths, and seem originally to have been 



reddish, a tinge of that colour still pervading 



some parts of the wings: the tips are green: these 



wings are very strongly veined with brown fibres: 



the W'ing-cases are of a strong opake green, and 



were doubtless more vivid in the living insect: 



they have a great resemblance to a pair of leaves. 



The mouth has four palpi, which are rather long, 



and under the mouth are situated two leaf-shaped 



organs, perhaps belonging to the action of that 



part. The antennae are wanting, the first joints 



alone remaining. The abdomen is terminated by 



a kind of boat-shaped organ, the keel of which 



possesses a considerable space beneath the abdo- 



