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Description of a supposed New Species of 



PHASMIDuE. 



By J. G. O. Teppee, F.L.S., &c. 



[Read August 3, 1886.] 



Plate VI. 



Several very remarkable examples of Phasmida? with rudi- 

 mentary wings were presented in the course of the last twelve 

 months to the Adelaide Museum. The perfect insect was 

 captured at Mount Lofty by Mrs. Stirling, and another specimen 

 was obtained by Mr. G-uest, of Balhannah, while I collected 

 two specimens in the nymphai condition. 



In consulting the available literature I could find no mention 

 of this large insect. I therefore venture to lay a description 

 before the Society, and attach a provisional name, deferring 

 the species to "Westwood's genus Lopaphus, although one of 

 the generic distinctions does not fit, viz., "Jtegmina much 

 smaller than the wings." The one before us has the first as 

 long or longer than the latter. 



Lopaphus macrotegmus. Spec. nov. Plate YI. (nat. size of a rather 

 small specimen). 



Body long, slender, dull brown, similarly winged in both 

 sexes ; head elongated, broader in front, forehead slightly 

 wrinkled ; eyes prominent ; antenna filiform, first two joints 

 dilated, many-jointed, about four or five times the length of the 

 head; mesothorax five times longer than the prothorax, with a 

 few small tubercles ; metathorax about half as long ; abdomen 

 cylindrical, tapering after fourth segment, last two very short; 

 terminal foliolets longer than any segment, rather broad, 

 rounded at the tip ; operculum conspicuous, rising from seventh 

 segment, not extending beyond the body ; legs straight, slender, 

 mottled grey, first pair longest ; femora dentated conspicuously 

 above, less so beneath, inner angle smooth ; tibia straight, 

 smooth ; second pair shortest ; femora with' one (or two) 

 teeth above near the middle, four or five beneath; tibia 

 twin tooth above, nearer the elbow joint, and two small 

 teeth near the wrist beneath; third pair intermediate; 

 femora one small tooth in the middle and another near 

 elbow above and several beneath, tibia with a double 

 tooth above; tarsi long, first joint longer than half the- 



