1877.] J. Wood- Mason— iVb/e5 on PhasmidiE. 319 



Hab. The only precise locality for the species which it is at present 

 in my power to give is Samaguting, Naga Hills, whence specimens pre- 

 served in alcohol have been sent to me by Captain J. Butler, and are now in 

 the Indian Musemn. 



The organs of flight have entirely disappeared from this as well as from 

 the following species, 



5. LoPAPnus Baucis, PI. II, Fig. 2, S . 

 Bacteria Bauds, Westwood, Monogr. Fhasmidce, 1859, p. 21, pi. viii, fig. 8, ? . 

 LoncJwdes Baucis, Wood-Mason, I, s. cit. 



Hab. Abmidant in the neighbom-hood of Sibsagar, Assam, whence I 

 have received numerous individuals of both sexes — dried as well as in alco- 

 hol — from my valued correspondent, Mr. S. E. Peal, to whom I am also 

 indebted for coloured sketches and much information respecting ^liasmidce 

 and other Ai'thropods. And apparently throughout the N. E. frontier 

 country. 



The accompanying figures were taken from one of the numerous speci- 

 mens collected by Mr. Peal. 



I have examined the typical specimen of the female preserved in the 

 National Collection, and I find that the stiff brown bristles figured and de- 

 scribed by Westwood as fringing the sides of the abdomen at its base are 

 present on one side of the body only, that they have no organic connec- 

 tion with the integument of the insect, and that some similar bristles lie 

 scattered quite irregularly over the basal joints of the adjacent leg, like 

 spelicans spilled upon a table ; moreover, no trace of such setae is detecti- 

 ble in a specimen of the same sex and species placed alongside of the type 

 in the same drawer, nor in any one of the multitude of specimens in the 

 Indian Museum. The setae, which are apparently of a vegetable nature, 

 have evidently got jammed between the dorsal and ventral arcs of the seg- 

 ments as the membrane connecting these at the sides contracted in drying. 



NeCEOSCIA PHiETUSA. 



N. Ph(Btusa, Westwood, Monogr. Phasmidce, p. 137, pi. xxxviii, fig. 4, <?. 

 N. Gargantiia, id., op. cit., p. 130, pi. xxix, fig. 3, $ as male. 



On my informing Professor Westwood that his N. Gargantua, which 

 from the mutilated condition of the terminal segments of the abdomen and 

 from the presence of ocelli he had felt compelled to describe as a male, was 

 in reality of the opposite sex, he at once pointed out N. Fhcdtma <? as its 

 true and legitimate partner. 



Hab. a perfect specimen of the female, captured by my native col- 

 lector on Sinkieb Island, is in the Indian Museum. The typical specimens 



