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CATALOGUE OF ORTHOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



of its existence. This individual is in the British Museum 

 Collection, from Ceram, and appears to be a larva of Ph. 

 siccifolium, having simple posterior tibiae. Fig. 1 b. re- 

 presents a male larva of PA. Scythe, having small rudi- 

 ments both of wings and wing-covers ; and 1 c, a male pupa 

 of the same species, having the alary rudiments still more 

 developed, and the antenna; consisting of about twenty 

 joints, the outer half having been developed at the extre- 

 mity of the short thickened antennae of the larva, as may 

 be clearlv perceived by the more slender form of the sup- 

 plemental joints. 



1. (449.) Phyllium siccifolium . 



Viride ; alis rudimentalibus ; abdominis segmento 3"° 

 ultra medium reliquis latiori, hinc ad apicem 6" paulo an- 

 gustato, 7 mo lateribus rotundatis, postice multo angustiore, 

 segmentis 2 apicalibus subito angustatis ; femoribus an- 

 ticis dilatatis, lobis internis et extemis ejusdem latitudinis, 

 lobi interni margine basali integro, margine apicali dilatato, 

 rotundato, dentato, lobo externo semiovali, integro ; femo- 

 ribus intermediis ovalibus, posticis semiovatis, tibiis anticis 

 intus lobo semiovali instructis ; tibiis 4 posticis gracilibus, 

 inermibus ; operculo fceminae e basi segmenti 7°" ventrali 

 exeunti, carinato, basi rotundato, dimidio apicali trigono, 

 acuto, ad medium segmenti 9 ni dorsalis extenso, lobis internis 

 duobus apice acutis, ad apicem abdominis extensis. 



Long. corp. fcem. unc. 3, liu. 6 ; cap. lin. 4 ; proth. lin. 3 ; 

 mesoth. liu. 6 ; abdom. lin. 20 + lin. 7=lin. 27 ; lat. tegm. 

 lin. 8 ; lat. fern. ant. lin. 6, fern. 2 post. lin. 4. Lat. corp. 

 fcem. unc. 1-J-. 



Gryllus folium Lauri, Linneeus, Mus. Adolph. Frid. p. 83. 

 Grvllus siccifolius, Linneeus, Mus. Reg. Ulr. p. Ill ; Syst. 

 Nat. p. 425. n. 3. 



Roesel, Ins. Bel. ii. pi. 17. f. 4, 5. 



Edwards, Aves, pi. 258 (The Walking-leaf). 



Merian, Ins. t. 66. 

 Mantis ficifolia, Linneeus, Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 689. n. 3. 

 Phasma siccifolia (Lafeuille de Citron), Stoll, Spectr. pi. 7, 



& App. 

 Mantis siccifolia, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. ii. 16. 



Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (Linn.) no. 2049. 



Olivier, Enc. Meth. vii. 626. 



Lamarck, An. s. Vert. iv. 253. 

 Phyllium siccifolium, Latr. Gen. Or. et Ins. hi. 89. 



Lepel. et Serv. Enc. Meth. x. 1 15 (Phvllium s.). 



Sen: Ann. Sci. Nat. xxii. 63 ; H. N. Orth. p. 290. 

 Phyllium brevicorne, Latr. Gen. iii. 8, 9, fern. 

 Pteropus siccifolius, Tlmnberg, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sc. St. 



Petersb. v. 286. 

 Phasma citrifolium, Lichtenstein, Linn. Trans, vii. 17. 

 Dry-leaf Mantis, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 1 19 ; Gen. Zool. vi. 

 1. pi. 47. 



Cuvier, Regne An. (ed. Crochard) Ins. pi. 79. f. . 



Donovan, Ins. India, pi. fig. inferior. 



Dry-leaf Mantis, Diet. cTHist. Nat. xxvi. pi. G. 42. f. 4. 

 Dumeril, Cons. CI. Ins. pi. 23. f. 2 ; Enc. Meth. Ins. 



pi. 133. f. 2 ; Enc. portatif, Orth. pi. 27. f. 1. 

 G. R. Gray, Syn. Phasm. p. 30 ; also in Zoologist, 



1843, i. p. 118. 

 Burmeister, Handb. d. Ent. ii. 2. 590. 

 De Haan, Orthopt. Orient, p. 111. 

 Laporte et Blanchard, Hist. N. Ins. iv. pi. 5, fem. 

 Mantis foliatus, Perry, Arcana of Nature, no. 6. pi. 4. 

 Phyllium Gorgon, G. R. Gray, Syn. Phasm. p. 31 ; and in 

 Zoologist, 1843, i. 119. 



Hab. In India orientali. In Museeo Hopeiano Oxoniar, 

 B.M., &c. 



As some confusion has arisen as to the real species de- 

 scribed by Linnaeus, I have thought it useful to copy his 

 original description from the ' Museum Ulrica? Reginae' : — 



" Caput ovatum, laeve ; antennae brevissimae, obtusae, ar- 

 ticulis 9, quorum 1 bascos latior, 2 brevissimus, 3 major re- 

 liquis, 4, 5, 6, 7 brevissimi lenticulares, 8, 9 ovati. 



" Collum cordatum. Thorax subtrigonus, lateribus den- 

 ticulatis, longitudine capitis. 



"Elytra incumbentia, parallela, simul ovata, virescentia, 

 singula folium Lauri referentia, obtusa, venosa, margine in- 

 teriore approximata. Aloe brevissimae, emarcidae aut vix 

 ullae. 



" Abdomen ovatum, membranaceo-planum, segmentis 8. 



" Pedes corpore breviores. 



1 femora plana, obovata, antice dentata, juxta caput 

 excisa ; tibiae lanceolatae, membranaceae. 



2 femora obovata, oblongiuscula, membranacea, antice 

 et carina denticulata ; tibiae triquetral, laeves. 



3 femora lanceolata, membranacea, antice et carina sub- 



serrata ; tibiae triquetral, lwves, squama obtusa inter 

 ungues." 



De Haan gives the following measurements of various 

 individuals, all of which are females. From the relative 

 length and width of some of the specimens, I should appre- 

 hend that the whole of them could scarcely be referable to 

 one species. 



a. Long. corp. 4" 2'" ; lat. corp. 1" 4^'". 



b. Long. corp. 3" 5'" ; lat. corp. 1" 2'". 



c. Long. corp. 3" 3'" ; lat. corp. 1" 6'". 



d. Long. corp. 3" 2'" ; lat. corp. 1" 7i'" (Gray). 



e. Long. corp. 3" 2'" ; lat. corp. 1"5'"; lat. elytr. 7'" ; 



femoribus anticis 6'" latis, posticis 3A'" latis. — 

 Java ; Timor. 

 /. Long. corp. 2" 6'" ; lat. corp. 13'" ; lat. elytr. 5i'" ; 

 femoribus anticis 3'" latis, posticis 2'" latis. — Timor; 

 N. Guinea. 



De Haan has added the following description of a pupa, 

 of which he has also given a figure (pi. 15. f. 7), which 



