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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. As a species it is apparently allied to B. hookeri, 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 filif or mis, 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 ; antenna setaceous, 

 1-|- inch long, very roughly pubescent, brownish-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, tibia? tetra- 

 gonal, 1J 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 J of the length from coxa?, and a small elevated spine on outer 

 margin of tibia? 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. 



3. Bacillus minimus, sp. nov. 



Colour light green. Body smooth, 8-J lines long, ■§• line broad. Head 1 

 line long ; antenna? 1 line long, pinkish, finely pubescent, composed of 9 

 joints, the lowest two hght green, basal large flatfish, the apical one longest 

 linear-oblong obtuse. Thorax (notum) with a central pinkish longitudinal 

 broad stripe, vanishing at sides ; prothorax f line long, slightly wrinkled ; 

 mesothorax 1-J lines, metathorax 1^ lines, long ; prosternum a triangular 

 scale with a rounded apex. 



