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CATALOGUE OF ORTHOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



(probably green whilst alive), with a large oblong brown 

 patch near the base ; the hinder portion is ornamented 

 with macular fasciae of brown, darkest towards the base. 

 The fore legs are long and simple, as are also the middle 

 pair ; the hind pair are thickened, the femora strongly 

 spined, and the inner edge of the tibiae with about six short 

 strong incurved spines ; the sides of the metasternum and 

 the posterior coxae are also spined. 



Plate XXX. Fig. 1. The male, of the natural size. 1 a. The 

 metasternum and base of one of the hind legs. 1 b. The 

 terminal segments of the abdomen seen sideways. 



Since my drawing of this insect was made, the specimen 

 has been sold by auction, and I do not know in whose 

 possession it is at the present time. 



Genus 28. PLATYCRANIA. 



Platycrana, pars, G. R. Gray. 



'Serville, H. N. Orth. p. 240. 

 Cyphocrania, Sect. B., Be Haan (p. 130). 

 Cyphocrania, Sect. 1, B., Burmeister (p. 578). 



Body robust in the females ; winged in both sexes ; the 

 wings of the male nearly as long as the abdomen, not or 

 scarcely more than half its length in the female. Head 

 moderate-sized, convex, destitute of ocelli. Antennae short, 

 or of moderate length. Mesothorax about thrice the length 

 of the prothorax. Tegmina small, broadly ovate, truncated 

 at the tip. Abdomen slender in the males, broad in the 

 females, with the operculum extending to, or rather beyond, 

 the extremity of the abdomen, furnished in the typical 

 species with two long curved slender filaments ; anal styles 

 slender, long and pointed. Legs short, or of moderate 

 length, more or less dentated. 



I have followed Serville in giving Phasma edule, Licht., 

 as the type of a genus distinct from the preceding, and 

 have added to it two other species, which agree with it 

 tolerably well in general form, although, from several of 

 their details, they will require a separate section for their 

 reception. 



1. (286.) Platycrania edulis. 



Viridis ; mesothorace maris scabro, fceminse glabro ; teg- 

 minibus areaque costali alarum viridibus, basi coccineis ; 

 stylis analibus minutis, angustis, acutis ; pedibus brevibus, 

 submuticis, femoribus 4 posticis subtus denticulatis. 



Long. corp. maris, unc. 3, lin. 7; cap. lin. 3; proth." 

 lin. 2; mesoth. lin. 6 \ ; metath. lin. 7; abdom. lin. 21 + 

 lin. 4=lin. 25 ; tegm. lin. 6 ; alar, expans. unc. 4-J-. 



Long. corp. fcem. cum operc. unc. 6 ; cap. lin. 6; 



anten. lin. 13; proth. lin. 3f ; mesoth. lin. 12; metath. 

 lin. 1 1 ; abdom. unc. 2, lin. 8 + lin. 7 + operc. lin. 3 = 

 unc. 3£ ; tegm. lin. 1 1 ; alar, expans. unc. 4\. 



Phasma Jamaicensis (Le Spectre verd), Stoll, Spectr. pi. 6. 



f. 20. female, f. 21. male. 

 Phasma edule, Lichtenstein, Linn. Trans, vi. 13. 

 Mantis viridana, Olivier, Enc. Mith. vii. 636. no. 60. 

 Cyphocrana viridana, Serville, Ann. Sc. Nat. xxii. 60. 

 Platvcrana viridana, G. R. Gray, Syn. Phasm. p. 36. 



'Serville, H. N. Orth. p. 241. 

 Mantis viridis, Donovan, Ins. India, pi. 10. 

 Cyphocrania viridana, Burmeister, Handl. d. Ent. ii. 2. 5 78. 

 Phasma (Cyphocrania B.) viridanum, De Haan, Orth. 



Orient, p. 130. 

 Mantis gigas, Houtt. Nat. Hist. x. pi. 79. f. I. 



Hab. Indiae orientalis insulis Moluccas et Philippin. ; 

 Aru {Wallace) ; Ceram {Mad. Pfeiffer). B.M., &c. 



Stoll's specific name Jamaicensis would have been re- 

 tained for this species, were it not for its incorrect geogra- 

 phical indication. That of edule, given to the species by 

 Lichtenstein, is consequently adopted (his reference to the 

 Jamaica species, figured by Drury, being however omitted). 

 According to Valentinus, quoted by Houttuyn, this species 

 is eaten by the Malays for food. 



2. (287.) Platycrania Alpheus, Westw. 

 Plate IV. fig. 2. 



Elongata, pallide virescens ; mesothorace et abdomine 

 fuscescentibus, hujus apice virescente ; laevis, subnitida ; 

 mesonoto tuberculis minutis instructo ; tegminibus subro- 

 tundatis areaque costali alarum viridibus, harum membrana 

 vix dimidium segmenti 2di abdominis attingente, pallide 

 fusca, venis fulvis ; pedibus brevibus, crassis, fere inermi- 

 bus (tern.). 



Long. corp. unc. 4| ; cap. lin. 5 ; anten. lin. 13 ; proth .- 

 lin. 4; mesoth. lin. 9; metath. lin. 9; abdom. lin. 23 + 

 lin. 9=lin. 32; tegm. lin. 7| ; alar, expans. lin. 26. 



Hab. Ceylon and Philippine Islands. B.M. 



Entirely smooth and rather glossy, except the mesotho- 

 rax, which is more or less covered with small, oblong, slightly 

 raised tubercles, especially in front, and along the lateral 

 margins of the upper part ; the general colour is pale green, 

 with the mesothorax and abdomen brownish, the latter 

 greenish at its extremity ; the tegmina and costal area of 

 the wings are green, the membranous portion of the latter 

 slightly stained with brownish, with longitudinal fulvous 

 veins. The head is oval. The antennae short, with about 

 twenty-three joints ; the basal joint of moderate size. The 

 prothorax is scarcely larger thau the head, its anterior 

 lateral angles narrowed and slightly porrected ; the disc 



