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was not pregnant (very likely had laid her eggs before capture), she would 
not eat and only lived a few days. And again, since writing the foregoing, 
I have received from him a third specimen, this one being a male; it is 
smaller and slenderer and more smooth, but agreeing in every other 
. particular. 
II. Asa species it is apparently allied to B. Aookeri, but very distinct. 
In its many and bright colours, the configuration of its head and anterior 
femora, it approaches species of the allied Australian genus Phasma (Diura). 
2. Bacillus filiformis, sp. nov. 
Colour fulvous irregularly variegated with brown. 
Head dull-grey, sub-triangular, broadest in front, convex at vertex, 
smooth ; eyes very prominent at angles, neck narrow; antenn: setaceous, 
14 inch long, very roughly pubescent, browaish- yellow ringed with 23 black 
knobbed joints (reminding of a miniature stem of Dendrobium lessonii), 
apical joint longer than each of the three following, and the middle joints 
longest, with a small whitish protuberance on each horn about the middle. 
Body very slender, length 4 inches, breadth 1 line, a little more at joints 
of abdomen; prothorax very small, 2 lines long, smooth, with a central 
longitudinal ridge; mesothorax 11 lines long, with several large spines 
above and below; metathorax 10 lines long, one pair of spines above, four 
below ; spines distant, stout, coarse, black; abdomen knobbed at joints, 
two spines below first segment, with a small tubercle under each joint on 
the sides ; appendage broadly triangular, tips finely pilose ; anal extremities 
obtuse, thickened. 
Legs very slender, striate or sub-angular, pilose ; ungues small, pubes- 
cent: anterior pair, two small spines at lower end of femora, tibiw tetra- 
gonal, 14 inch long, much longer than femora : middle pair, with six stout 
black spines at lower end of femora, and one very small spine on the inner 
margin at + of the length from coxm, and a small elevated spine on outer 
margin of tibie at } of the length from the basal joint: posterior pair - 
with two small spines at the lower end of femora. 
Hab. Woods, Seventy-mile Bush, Waipawa County; 1883: W.C. 
Obs. A peculiar dry-looking, rigid, slender form. Apparently a scarce 
species ; only one perfect specimen seen. 
8. Bacillus minimus, sp. nov. 
Colour light green. Body smooth, 8} lines long, 4 line broad. Head 1 
line long ; antenne 1 line long, pinkish, finely pubescent, composed of 9 
joints, the lowest two light green, basal large flattish, the apical one longest 
linear-oblong obtuse. Thorax (notum) with a central pinkish longitudinal 
broad stripe, vanishing at sides ; prothorax 2 line long, slightly wrinkled ; 
mesothorax 14 lines, metathorax 1} lines, long; prosternum a triangular 
scale with a rounded apex. 
