442 Mr. Westvrood's characters of 



tudine vix longior, (quartam partem longltudinis abdominis vix sequans,) 

 lateribus fere rectis, absque dilatatione laterali, antice baud angustatus. 

 Oculi maximi rotundati. Caput muticum, vertice piano. Pedes an- 

 tici maximi ; femoribus brevibus crassissimis ; femora 4 postica sim- 

 plicia, quam in Mantide crassiora. Abdomen versus apicem acuminatum, 

 apice ejus tegminibus alisque perfectis baud obtecto. Antennae sim- 

 plices. 



NoTA. Generi Mantidi (ut a Servilleo restricto) affinis. DifFert pro- 

 thoracis brevitate, abdominis apice detecto, coloreque metallico. 

 Sp. 1. Met. splendidus, Westw. 



Viridis nitidissimus; tegminibus cupreo-nitentibus; femoribus anticis 

 macula centrali fulva. 



Variat colore purpureo, femoribus 4 posticis antice subfulvis. 

 Tab. XXII. Fig. 1. 



Long. corp. lin. 14. Expans. tegminum lin. 22. 



Habitat in Malabaria. 



In Mus. nostr. 



Orthoptera. Fam. Phasmidce.* 



AsCHIPHASMA,-f Westw. 



Corpus longum subcylindricum, alatum, tegminibus obsoletis. Caput 



fere quadratum angulis rotundatis, supra Iseve, baud tuberculatum. 



Oculi magni subfron tales. Ocelli nuUi, Antennae corporis toti fere 



longitudine, frontales. Prothorax quadratus mesothoracis longitudinem 



fere aequans, tuberculis duobus parvis anticis. Mesothorax paullo longior 



quam latus. Tegmina omnino obsoleta. Alse magnae abdominis fere 



longitudine, semicirculares. Pedes et abdomen simplicia subcylindrica. 



Sp. 1. ^sch. annulipes, Westw. 



$ Sordide viridis; capite prothorace et mesothorace lineis notulisque 



♦ Although numerous instances occur in which the mesothoracic organs of 

 flight are alone developed, this is the only insect in which I have hitherto noticed 

 the metathoracic ones alone to exist. In all the specimens which I have seen 

 the same structure prevails. 



t A privativum, et <TKnra(j/j.a tegmen. 



