336 MR. HENRY WALTER BATES ON PHASMIDÆ. 
of the female is of the ordinary, convex, keeled shape, and reaches to the base of the fork, 
The thorax of the female is thickly covered with sharp tubercles both above and beneath, 
The cephalic spines are much smaller in the male than in the female. The legs are un. 
armed in the male, and also in the female with the exception of a large foliaceous lobe on 
the upper side of the intermediate femora near the base. The tarsi are simple, but 
compressed. 4 
Hab. Ceylon (Nietner). Two examples in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
LONCHODES DENTICAUDA, n. sp. Mas. Gracilis, cylindricus, obscure viridi-fuscus, granu 
latus; capite oblongo, inter oculos bispinoso ; antennis setaceis, pallidis, nigro annu. | 
latis; abdomine apicem versus longitudinaliter suleato, segmento terminali apice | 
medio inciso, lateribus utrinque apice excavato, angulo inferiore producto intus valde 
dentato; pedibus modice elongatis, gracilibus, inermibus.—Long. corp. 2”; anten. 1 
4"; mesothor. 6"; metath. 44”. 
The peculiar form of the terminal abdominal segment amply distinguishes this species 
from its congeners. The abdomen towards its apex is longitudinally furrowed and 
wrinkled; the seventh and eighth segments are not much shorter or apparently broader — 
than the sixth; the terminal segment is a little longer than either of the two preceding, | 
it is not attenuated behind, and is cleft as usual in the middle, but each lobe at its | 
vertical apex is emarginated, and the lower edge is much produced and armed on its 
inner side with a row of conspicuous teeth. The slightly.convex and rugose apical ventral 
segment reaches barely to the apex of the eighth dorsal. ` 
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Hab. Ceylon (Nietner). One example in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
LoNCHODES PERSONATUS, n.sp. Fæmina. Elongatus, cylindricus, granulatus, opacus | 
cinereo-ochraceus, eorpore fusco lineato, pedibus nebulosis; capite subquadrato — 
leviter convexo, aspere granulato, inter oculos spinis brevissimis duabus; antennis | | 
elongatis, setaceis ; abdomine ruguloso; operculo convexo, declivitate postica valde 
dentata; pedibus brevibus, femoribus omnibus apice infra dentatis, tibiis anticis 
dilatatis, femoribus intermediis supra spinis foliaceis magnis, tarsorum anticorum 
articulo basali elevato-compresso.— Long. corp. 5” 2"; anten. 2”; mesothor. 1"? 
metath. 10"; ped. ant. 2" 3", intermed. 1" 7”, post. 2”. (Pl. XLIV. f. 7.) | 
This fine species so nearly resembles Stoll's figure of Phasma femoratum (Prisomert 
femorata, Westw.), an Amboyna insect, which appears not to have been met with sin E 
the time of the early Dutch naturalists, that I have some hesitation in giving it à new 
name. It differs in the form and number of the foliated spines of the upper surface 
the middle femora; but the amount of difference in this respect would be el 
Sufficient to warrant the step I have taken, if the figure and description of Stoll did 
leave us in the dark as to several other important features which, if absent from | 
specimen, as we might conclude from their not being mentioned, would show that 
etn to deal with a totally distinct species. "These features are the granulated surfac? 
of ey body and the curious dentated posterior slope of the operculum. Even " 
Stoll s species possess these characters, it would perhaps still be necessary, 0n 
of the different armature of the middle femora, to distinguish ours as a local form? 
