1875.] J. Wood-Mason — On new or little-known species of Phasmidse. 215 



fully two inches long, and for the most part ashy grey throughout, a few 

 only having short hlack tips. On the sides the hair is rufous brown, except 

 at the base, where it is ashy, on the lower parts white with a slight rufous 

 tinge throughout. On the neck the hairs are rufous brown, those on the 

 back of the neck having ashy tips ; on the breast they are paler rufous. 

 Head brown, whitish round the eyes, whiskers partly black, partly white ; 

 inside surface of ears brown in front, whitish behind, the brown hairs hav- 

 ing short black tips, no distinct dark band in front. Extreme tip of ears 

 black, the colour only running a short distance down each margin. Ears 

 inside clad, towards the tip and posterior margin, with buff hairs, a brown 

 band near the hinder margin, which is buff. Tail white throughout. Limbs 

 chiefly white, a brownish band running down the anterior portion of the 

 fore legs. 



The skull measures 3*63 inches long from the occipital plane to the 

 front of the incisor teeth, and P73 broad across the widest portion of the 

 zygomatic arches. 



This hare appears to be found throughout a considerable tract in Wes- 

 tern Tibet. The specimen in the Asiatic Society's collection was presented 

 by Captain Smyth, but has no precise locality. This species is probably 

 the L. oiostolus of Adams, P. Z. S., 1858, p. 520. 1 do not think it is the 

 L. oiostolus of Hodgson, for a young specimen of L. pallipes agrees much 

 better with Hodgson's description, and the ears in the former are said by 

 Waterhouse* to be coloured like those of L. Tibetanus. This is not 

 the case in L. hypsibius. 



XXII. — On new or little-Jcnown species of Phasmida?, with a brief prelimi- 

 nary Notice of the Occurrence of a Clasping Apparatus in the Males 

 throughout the Family. — By James Wood-Mason. 



(Eecd. Deer. 10th, 1875 ;— Eead Jan. 5th, 1876.) 

 (With Plates XVI & XVII.) 



LiONCHODES WESTWOODII. 

 $ Bacillus Westivoodii, Wood-Mason, J. A. S. B., Vol. XLII, 1873, p. 51, pi. V. 

 figs. 1,2; P. A. S. B., Jidy, 1873, p 149, and A. & M. N. H., 4th Ser., 1873, Vol. 

 XH, p. 348. 



$ . Body and limbs, especially the anterior pair, of excessive tenuity ; 

 the average width of the former not exceeding three-fourths of a line. An- 

 tennae filiform, 22-jointed, all but as long as the five basal abdominal seg- 

 ments taken together. Head a complete miniature of that of the female, 



* Kodentia, p. 62. 

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