342 J. Wood-Mason— iVo^es on Pliasinida?. [No. 4, 



XIX. — Notes on Phasmidse. — By J. Wood-Masoi^. 

 (With Plates II and III.) 



Menaka scabritjsctjla. 



Bacillus scabriusculus, Wood-Mason, J. A. S. B., 1873, Vol. xlii, pt. ii, p. 55, pi. 

 viii, fig. 1, ? . 



Stheneboea Bnmneri, Stal, Eecensis Orthopt. Ill, 1875, p. 69, 5. 



Menaka scabrmscula, Wood-Mason, MS. 



I have seen numerous examples of this species in boxes o£ insects from 

 Silhet, the locality given by M. Stal for his species ; but none of them 

 differed sufficiently from those described by me to merit distinction even as 

 a variety. 



It is an insect with short and filiform antennae, and as it differs in this 

 as well as other respects from all the forms with which it has been classed 

 by M. Stal, I here introduce the new generic name that I had proposed for 

 it. 



LONCHODES WeSTWOODI. 



Bacillus Wcstwoodi, Wood-Mason, J. A. S. B., 1873, Vol. xlii, p. 51, pi. v, figs. 1, 

 2 ; P. A. S. B., 1873 ; p. 149 ; and Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th Ser., 1873, Vol. xii, 

 p. 348. 



Lonchodes Westwoodi, id., J. A. S. B., 1875, Vol. xliv, p. 215, $. 



Entoria spinicornis, Stal, Eecensis Orthopt. Ill, 1875, p. 72. 



M. Stal's* Entoria spinicornis from Silhet appears to me to be identi- 

 cal with the species described by me from the Andamans. I have since 

 found it in abundance in Calcutta, and have ascertained that it occurs also 

 in Silhet and on Camorta Is., Nicobars. 



I have made a number of interesting observations on its habits and 

 anatomy which will be published in due course. 



It lives on Streblus asper, a shrub or small tree which is indigenous 

 wherever the insect is found. 



Bacteria Shiya, PI. II, Fig. 3, $ . 



Bacteria Shiva, Westwood, Monograph of Fhasmidce, 1859, p. 32, pl. viii, fig. 6, ?. 



Hab. Westwood gives " North India" as the locality of the female 



preserved in the National Collection. Lt.-Col. Godwin-Austen has obtained 



* I take this opportunity of thanking M. Stal for his friendly transmission of 

 copies of all his memoirs on the Orthoptera, including his new ' Sijstema Fhasmidarum* 

 which, on my return to India, I shall take an early opportunity of comparing with my 

 own materials. 



