1877.] J. Wood-Mcason — Notes on Phasniida). 34<5 



preserved in the British Museum with Gray's own names and the locality 

 (Malabar) still attached to them : — 



$ . Total length 4 inches ; head 1*75 : pro thorax 1'75 : mesothoraxj 

 13 ; metathorax 9-25 ; abdomen 17-75 + 5 = 22*75 (L. Irevipes). 



$ . Total length 4 inches 9 lines ; head 3 ; proth. 2*25 ; mesoth. 13 "25 

 metath. 10'5 ; abdom. 22-5 + 6 = 28-5 {L. pterodactylus). 



The following those of a male and a female from Johore and both pre- 

 served in alcohol : — 



$ . Total length 4 in. 1*5 lines ; head 1"75 ; proth. 2 : mesoth. 13*25 ; 

 metath. 10 ; abd. 18 + 4*75 = 2275 ; antennae 28-25 lines. 



2. Total length 5 in. 6*25 lines ; head 3 ; proth. 2-5 ; mesoth. 15-25 ; 

 metath. 11-75 ; abd. 27 + 6-75 = 33-75 ; antennjE 23-25 lines. 



And the following those of the female from Java — also preserved in 

 alcohol : — 



? . Total length 4 in. 6 lines ; head 2-5; proth. 2-25 ; mesoth. 11 75 ; 

 metath. 9-25 ; abd. 22-5 + 5-75 = 28-25 ; antennae 16-5 lines. 



The males in this species have the metathorax curiously curved and in 

 both sexes this segment is so articulated to the mesothorax on each side by 

 interlocking processes as to be capable of movement upwards and forwards 

 upon it through an arc of fully 45° — peculiarities of structure which have 

 not been met with by me in any other sjDecies of the family. The highly 

 indurated condition of the whole thoracic integument is also exceptional. 



LONCHODES SPINICOLLIS. 

 Frisomera spinicollis, G. E. Gray, Syn. Phasmid., p. 16, 5. 

 „ spmicoUe, Westwood, Monogr. Phasm., p. 47, $ . 

 ? LoncJiodes auscultatory Bates, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Vol. xxv, p. 334, J . 

 The following are the measurements of a spirit-sjDecimen : — 

 $ . Total length 4 in. 7*25 lines ; head 2-5 ; proth. 2-25 ; mesoth. 12 ; 

 metath. 9-5 ; abd. 23 + 6 (to end of supra-anal plate) = 29 ; antennae 30 

 lines. 



Hab. Galagedara, near Kandy, Ceylon,* obtained by Mr. Hugh Ne- 

 vill, of the Ceylon Civil Service. 



* The importance of exact habitats for species from Ceylon and S. India cannot 

 be too strongly insisted on : I have, from both countries, species which must have lived in 

 open parched country with but a scant covering of vegetation Hke that around Bangalore, 

 Madras, &c., and species which equally certainly are inseparable from the thickest and 

 most luxuriant tropical vegetation, all marked with no more precise locality than 

 ' Ceylon' or ' S. India' or ' Madras.' Animals localized in this unprecise manner are 

 all valuable enough as specimens of the species to which they belong, but they have no 

 higher value. 



