PIIASMID/E. ASCIIIPAS.MA. 



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black spots and dots, lenving the veins green ; median vein 

 simple. The terminal segments of the abdomen of the 

 male are very much swollen both above and below, and the 

 anal styles are deflexed, broad, and emarginate at the ex- 

 tremity. The female has the terminal joint rounded and 

 entire, the operculum very much swollen, and the anal styles 

 short and oval. 



Plate XV. Fig. 2. The variety of the male, of the natural size. 

 2 a. The terminal segments of the body seen from beneath. 

 2 b. The same seen sideways. 2 c. The same parts in the 

 female, seen sideways. 2 U. The extremity of the female 

 abdomen seen from behind. 



2. (235.) Aschipasma nebulosum, Westw. 

 Plate IX. fig. 4, male. 



Gracile, pallide fuscum, inerme ; antennis longis, gracil- 

 limis, multiarticulatis ; tegminibus obsoletis ; pedibus lon- 

 gioribus, parum hirtis, fusco obscurius annulatis, inter- 

 mediis subtus spinis minutis armatis ; alis angustioribus, 

 pallide fuscis, costa luteo-fusca, obscure nebulosa (mas). 



Long. corp. lin. 18i ; cap. tin. \\ ; anten. lin. 18 ; proth. 

 lin. \\; mesoth. lin. 2 ; metath. lin. 3 ; abdom. lin. 9 + 

 lin. 2=lin. 11 ; alar, expans. lin. 1A\. 



Hab. Ceylon. B.M. 



This species is allied to the preceding in being entirely 

 destitute of the rudiments of tegmina ; it has the an- 

 tennae very long and slender, the legs annulated, especially 

 near the extremity of the femora, and the costa of the 

 wings obscurely clouded. It agrees in size with the male 

 of A. affine, De Haan ; but the wings are at least one-third 

 larger, and the last segment of the under side of the body 

 shorter. The general colour is pale brown. The body is 

 narrow and subcylindrical. The head is rather wider than the 

 prothorax, and is marked in the middle of the crown behind 

 with a small dark spot. The prothorax is rather longer 

 than the head, and the mesothorax is about one-third longer 

 than the prothorax. The antennee are long and slender, 

 with the joints short ; beyond the middle they are marked 

 at irregular distances with a dusky ring at the extremity 

 of one of the joints, leaving two, three, or even four joints 

 between the dusky and slightly incrassated joints. The 

 tegmina are entirely obsolete. The wings are very pale 

 brown, and rather opake, with the costal area darker lu- 

 teous-brown, slightly clouded with irregular ill-defined paler 

 patches ; all the veins are pale brown, the principal longi- 

 tudinal vein darker than the rest, and slightly spotted with 

 pale dots towards the base. The legs are slender ; the fore 

 femora nearly straight at the base ; all of them are ob- 

 scurely annulated with dusky, and with a more decided 



ring near the tip ; the intermediate tibia? are armed be- 

 neath with several minute spines. The abdomen is long 

 and slender, slightly clavate at the tip, the last joint de- 

 flexed and emarginate at its extremity ; the two anal styles 

 rather long, deflexed and incurved ; the seventh ventral 

 segment is distinct, but the two following are coalesced 

 into a somewhat conical segment, scarcely swollen beneath, 

 and extending nearly to the extremity of the ninth dorsal 

 segment. 



Plate IX. Fig. 4. The male, of the natural size. 4 a. The 

 terminal segments of the abdomen seen from beneath. 4 b. 

 The extremity of the abdomen seen from behind. 4 c. The 

 terminal segments seen sideways. 



3. (236.) Aschipasma Forstenii. 



Alis utriusque sexus orbiculatis ; tegminibus stipulse- 

 formibus, obtusis, aurantiacis ; corpore, antennis pedibusque 

 nigris ; femoribus anticis rectis ; capite lato. 



Mas. Alarum area postica obscuro-fusca, antica nigra, 

 aurantiaco-marginata, stylis analibus incurvatis, vagina con- 

 vexa. 



Foem. Alarum area postica fuscescente, antica viridi, 

 areolis fuscis ; stylis analibus rectis tenuioribus, vagina 

 compressa. 



Long. corp. maris, lin. 16| ; cap. lin. 1 ; anten. lin. 7 .' ; 

 proth. lin. l£ ; mesoth. lin. 2\ ; metath. lin. 2| ; abdom. 

 lin. 7+lin. 2=lin. 9; alar, expans. lin. 17; lat. alee, lin. 5j. 



Long. corp. foem. lin. 20 ; cap. lin. If ; anten. lin. — ? ; 

 proth. lin. 2 ; mesoth. lin. 3 ; metath. lin. 2-f ; abdom. 

 lin. 8 + lin. 3 = lin. 1 1 ; alar, expans. lin. 20 ; lat. alse, 

 lin. 7. 



Phasma (Ascephasma) Forstenii, De Haan, Orth. Orient. 

 p. 114. 



Hab. Celebes. In Mus. Lugdunensi. 



The above dimensions are derived from an examination 

 of the typical specimens in the Leyden Museum. 



4. (237.) Aschipasma Pandora, Westw. 

 Plate IX. fig. 2, male. 



Obscure nigrum, cylindricum, inerme ; tegminibus minu- 

 tis stipuleeformibus luteis, alis oblongis, apice rotundatis, 

 nigris, area; costalis margiue antico venis venulisque luteis ; 

 pedibus brevibus, crassioribus, rectis ; abdomine elongato, 

 apice parum clavato, segmentis 8 et 9 ventralibus coalitis 

 convexis, stylis analibus incurvatis latis, apice oblique trun- 

 catis (mas). 



Long. corp. lin. 22 ; cap. lin. 1 ; anten. lin. 19 ; proth. 

 lin. lj; mesoth. lin. 3i ; metath. lin. 3j ; abdom. lin. 9 + 



