2 78 PHASMIDAE chap, xi 



4'. Each sex winged. Femora smooth, beneath. The 



species belong "to the Old World. Tribe 4. Kecro- 



SCIDES. (Fig. 159, Galvisia atrosignata.) 



2'. Antennae (at any rate in the females) shorter than tlie front femora, 



the joints distinct, not more than 28 in number. The species 



belong to the Old World. 



3. Median segment shorter than the metanotum. Apterous 

 species. Cerci plump. Tribe 5. Clitumnides. (Fig. 160, 

 Eurycantha australis.) 

 3'. Median segment longer than the metanotum. Species usually 

 winged. Cerci (except in some genera of the group Platy- 

 craninae) flattened, elongate. Tribe 6. Acrophyllides. 

 (Fig. 153, Gyphocrania aestuans.) 

 1'. Tibiae furnished beneath with a triangular apical area. 



2. Antennae many jointed, longer than the front femora. 



3. Median segment shorter than the metanotum. Apterous 

 species.-'^ 



4. Either head, thorax, or legs sjiinj' or lobed. Tribe 7. 



Cladomorphides. (Fig. 149, Heteropteryx grayi.) 

 4'. Head, thorax and legs unarmed. Tribe 8. Auiso- 

 MORPHIDES. (Fig. \Q\, Anisomorpha iMrdalina) 

 3'. Median segment longer than the metanotum. 



4. Claws unarmed. Tegmina lobe-like, either perfectly 



developed or entirely absent. The winged species are 



all American, the apterous are both African and 



Australian. Tribe 9. Phasmides. 



4'. Claws toothed on the inner side. Tegmina spine-like. 



Wings well developed. The species are Asiatic. Tribe 



10. Aschipasmides. (Fig. 150, Aschipasma catadwmus.) 



2'. Antennae shorter than the anterior femora,^ formed of not more 



than 20 joints. Old World species. 



3. Body slender. Apterous. Tribe 11. Bacillides. 

 3'. Body very broacl, lamina-like. Either wings or tegmina 

 present. Tribe 12. Phylliides. (Fig. 155, Phy Ilium scythe, 

 male ; Fig. 154, idem., female.) 



^ The African and Australian genera Orohia and Paraorotia, although they have 

 a short median segment, are placed in tlie tribe Phasmides of this division. 



^ This character is evidently erroneous as regards the males of the genus 

 Phy Ilium.— D. S. 



