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depression round the central part. We also figure an egg-tube (Fig. 37> with the 

 egg still incomplete though of large size: and the opercular pole of a less grown 

 egg. in which the operculum can be distinguished with a mass of nutrient matter 

 situate within it (Fig. 38).] 



[Cyphocrania hanitschi, n. n. Dr Wilier brought back eggs of a Phasmid which has 

 been exhibited in a live state in the gardens and Museum at Singapore, as described 

 in the report of Dr R. Hanitsch for 1897. 



The Insect (probably und escribed) is allied to C. goliath Gray, and as the egg 

 is remarkable for the large size of the capitulum we figure it, PL IX, Fig. 39. The 

 micropyle is exposed and is readily perceived in consequence of the very slight 

 elevation of the ring of the scar, Fig. 39 a.] 



Gents. AnchiaU. 

 Anchiale. Stal. Recensio Orthopteronun, hl 1S75, p. 36. 



Only one species of this genus appears at present to have been recognised, but 

 it is very closely allied to the Malaysian Cyphocrania. 



(13) Anchiale stall i, n. n. PL IX, Fig. 16. 



Elongata; mesothorace discrete tuberculato, tuberculis subacutis: cercis latis: alis 

 fusco-branneis, hyalino-macu latis. 



Mas. : antennis elongatis (articulis 1 — 22 = 54 mm) : longe hirsutis, ocellis valde 

 prominulis fere conjunct is ; cercis ovalibus, angulo apicale per-obtuso ; lamina supra - 

 analis abrupte tectiforniis, margine interno acute quinque dentato. 



Long. corp. 106 mm. : pronot. 44 mm. : mesonoti 16 mm. : metanoti Si mm. ; segm. 

 med. 5} mm. ; abdominis 6S mm. ; cerci -H mm. ; lat 2i mm. ; tegm. long. 13 mm. ; 

 alae 60 mm. 



Fem. ; antennis brevibus (articulis 1 — 22 = 32 mm.), breviter pubescentibus ; ocellis 

 subobsoletis ; cercis elongato-ovalibus, acuminatis ; operculo obtuse acuminato ad apieem 

 abdominis extenso, medio carinato: processubus genitalibus inferioribus elongatis, apieem 

 laminae subanalis fere attingentibus ; proc. medianis brevioribus, paulo ultra proc. 

 superiores extensis: his latis, liberis, aexuninatis. 



Long. corp. 170 mm.: pronoti 9 mm.; mesonoti 25 mm. ; metanoti 10 mm.; segm. 

 med. 10 mm; abdom. 100 mm.: cerci 6£ mm. ; lat. 3 mm.: tegm. 30 mm.: alae 

 70 mm. 



Loc. New Britain. 



The species in the female sex is apparently dimorphic in colour, the tints being 

 either those of young and green, or old and withered vegetation. I have only seen 

 one individual of the male sex: it has six small teeth on the inflexed terminal portion 

 of the last dorsal segment (PL IX, Fig. 19). 



Egg (Fig. 27): 4^ mm. long, 3^ broad, of a slaty-grey colour, indefinitely mottled 

 with paler grey, surface shining, a little irregular or uneven, not sculptured or porous, 

 Micropylar area elongate, raised ; micropylar scar large, almost horse-shoe shaped ; 

 capitulum pallid, rather small, placed on a short black base : operculum without sculp- 

 ture, the middle part — in which the capitular stalk is placed — somewhat depressed after 

 the fashion of a dish or plate. 



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