1971] 
Moxey — Phasmatodea 
7i 
On wet mossy tree. April, 1929. Haiti. E. C. Leonard, Coll. Light 
green in life. (ansp). 
Derivation of name: From the thorny shrub, Paliurus australis. 
Measurements of type: 
Length 
57 
mm 
Length of mesonotum 
12.5 
mm 
Length of metanotum 
4.2 
mm 
Length of median segment 
3-3 
mm 
Length of anterior femur 
13-5 
mm 
Length of median femur 
10.2 
mm 
Length of posterior femur 
13.5 
mm 
Genus Agamemnon new genus 
Body form elongate and slender; surface rugose or granulate. 
Head elongate, rectangular, with a pair of tubercles or spines 
between the eyes. Antennae longer than the anterior legs; scape 
depressed; pedicel subconical. Compound eyes small, but prominent; 
ocelli absent. 
Pronotum elongate, rectangular; defensive gland opening present. 
Prosternum transverse, lyriform. Mesothorax elongate, cylindrical 
in the male, slightly narrowed anteriorly in the female; notum of 
female medially carinate. Metathorax elongate, rectangular, cylin- 
drical in the male; notum medially carinate in the female. Median 
segment about O.5-0.7 times the length of the metanotum. 
Abdomen cylindrical in the male, segments II-VIII elongate, IX 
quadrate, X transverse, rounded posteriorly; abdomen broader in 
the female, segments II-VII subquadrate, VIII-X narrower than 
the preceding. Supraanal plate of female prominent, elongate. Cerci 
short, curved in male, straight in female. Vomer of male triangular, 
with a short sclerotized tip ; subgenital plate fornicate, apex rounded ; 
genitalia with a dextral sclerotized “hook.” Sternite VII of female 
with a highly specialized postero-median praeopercular organ ; sub- 
genital plate elongate, exceeding the end of the abdomen, apex 
rounded. 
Legs elongate and slender. Anterior femora strongly curved 
basally. Four posterior tibiae anareolate. First tarsomere longer 
than the second, but not longer than the next two together. Tegmina 
and wings absent. 
Type species: Agamemnon iphimedeia Moxey, new species. 
This genus is most closely related to Ocnophila Brunner (1907), 
from which it may easily be distinguished as follows: 
