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OKTHOPTERA. 



Species. Phasma (Cyphocrana) Gigas : viridis ; mesothoraoe soabro ; tegmioibus 

 ovalibus ; alis (area costali viridi,) obscure fulvis fusco undatis ; pedibus spi- 

 nosis, flavoridibus. Long. Corp. una 7. Expans. alar, unc 7. 

 Phasma (Cyphocrana) : green ; mesothorax scabrous ; wing-covers small oval ; 

 wings, (with the costal area green,) dirty fulvous with brown waves ; legs 

 spinose, yellowish-green. Length 7 inches. Expanse of the wings 7 inches. 

 Syn. Mantis Gigas, Linn Syst. Nat. 2. 689. Fab. Ent. Syst. vol.' 2. p. 14. Ent. Syst, 

 Suppl. p. 187. Shaw. Miscell. pi. 43. Donovan, 1st edit, (nee Phasma 

 (Diapherodes) Gigas, Drury, 2. pi. 50.) 

 Cyphocrana Gigas, Serville Ann. Se. Nat. XXII. p. 60. Gray Synops. Phasni. 

 p. 35. Le Geant. Stoll Spectres, pi. 2, fig. 5. 



Donovan observed of this insect, that it was the largest species of this very extra- 

 ordinary genus known, and that this specimen was from the island of Amboyna, 

 where it was rare. It is, however, exceeded in size by the Phasma (Diura) Titan of 

 MacLeay, figured by Gray, in his beautiful Memoir of the Phasmidas of New Holland, 

 plate 4. 



PHASMA (PLATYCKANA) EDITLE ? . 



Plate X. 



Subgenus. Platycrana, Gray. Cyphocrana, Serville. 



Species. Phasma (Platycrana) Edule : viridis ; mesothorace tereti ; $ scabro, $ glabro ; 

 tegminibus area costali viridi, basi coccineis ; pedibus brevibus, submuticis ; 

 femoribus posticis spinosis. Long. Corp. $ unc. 6. Expans. alar. unc. 4J. 

 Phasma (Platycrana) : green ; with the mesothorax slender ; scabrous in the 

 male, smooth in the female ; wing-covers with the costal area green, pink at 

 the base ; legs short, almost smooth ; posterior femora spined. Length of the 

 body J 6 inches. Expanse of the wings 4A inches. 

 Syn. Phasma edule, Licht. in Linn. Trans, torn. 6. p. 13. 

 Mantis viridis, Donovan, 1st edit. 

 Le Spectre verd, Stoll, pi. 6,fijj. 20 ? , 21 J. 



Mantis viridana, OKv. Enc. Ileth. 7. 636. Serville Revis. Orthopt. p. 33. (Ami. 

 8c. Nat. 20. p. 60.) Gray Synops. Phasm. p. 36. (Platycrana v.) 



Donovan states that he received this species also from Amboyna, where it it 

 perhaps, more scarce than the preceding insect. 



