218 J. Wood-Mason — On neiu or little-Jcnown species o/'Phasmidte. [No. 3, 



Phyi/lium siccifoltttm. 

 Having never met with a specimen of this species in the numerous 

 collections that have been submitted to my inspection since my arrival in 

 this country, but having received one from Mauritius, I am forced to the 

 conclusion that it is confined to Mauritius and some of the neighbouring 

 islands, and that the specimens from Java, Timor, and New Guinea referred 

 to it by De Haan have, as Westwood has suggested, been incorrectly deter- 

 mined. The latter author states that " in the Hopeian collection at Oxford 

 there is one from the collection of Latreille with the locality " Seychelles" 

 attached to it in his handwriting" ■ the locality now given thus corroborates 

 that of the celebrated French entomologist. 



Phyllium Celebicum, DeHaan, PL XVI. 



Some time ago I received, through the kindness of the hon'ble Ash- 

 ley Eden, to whom the Indian Museum has many times been indebted for 

 valuable specimens, two examples — the one an adult female, the other a 

 pupa of the same sex, — of a species which I have been unable to distinguish 

 from the above, the adult specimen only appearing to differ from De Haan's 

 typical one from the island of Celebes in the greater length of its tegmina 

 and wings, but in the latter respect very nearly agreeing with a specimen 

 from Manilla in the Hope Collection at Oxford. 



The following are the admeasurements of Mr. Eden's adult specimen : — 



Total length, 3 in. 3 lin. ; head, 3 J lin. ; proth. 2f lin. ; mesoth., 

 3| lin. ; metath., 4i lin. ; abd., 1 in. 7 lin. + 6 lin. = 2 in. 1 lin. ; width 

 of 3rd abd. segm. at middle, 1 in. 3 lin. ; do. of 6th at base, 1 in. 1\ lin. ; do. 

 of same at apex and of 7th at base, 8| lin. ; length of wings 1 in. 1\ lin., or 

 reaching to apex of 5th segm. ; do. of tegmina, 2 in., or nearly to apex of 

 Gth ; width of do. 8 lin. ; width of post, lobe of ant. fern. 3f lin. ; do. of ant. 

 lobe, 2\ lin. 



Hab. — Karen country, Burmah. 



The fourth abdominal segment of the pupa is biocellated, as in the 

 male, but not the faintest trace of these ocelli is detectible in the perfect 

 insect. 



Phyllitjm Westwoodii, n. sp., PI. XVII. 

 ? . Legs all similar to those of P. siccifolium ; wings reaching as far as 

 to a little beyond the second abdominal segment ; the tegmina to the apex 

 of the sixth ; mesothorax granulated above and below and at the sides ; 

 abdomen gradually widening from the base to the angulation which occurs 

 a little beyond the middle of its third segment ; from this point narrowing, 

 at first very gradually, at last somewhat more rapidly to the apex of the Gth 

 so that its sides are slightly and regularly arcuate ; its three terminal 

 segments forming together a triangular mass, the sides of the seventh 



