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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW AUSTRALIAN PHASMAS, 
TOGETHER WITH A SYNOPSIS OF THE PHASMIDiE IN 
AUSTRALIA. 
By W. J. Rainbow, Entomologist. 
(Plates ix., x.) 
The first of the two Phasmas described below is of more than 
ordinary interest, not only on account of its size and beauty, but also 
from the fact that although very close to the genus Acrophylla, Gray, 
it differs from that by the great length of its ovipositor. In Acro- 
phylla the ovipositor is boat-shaped, keeled below, and does not 
exceed the end of the abdomen. Kirby, in a paper “On the Phas- 
midfe of Madagascar,”* enumerates a small collection of four 
previously known species, and describes a fifth, for which he 
founds a new genus, Enetia , the characters of which are : — 
“ Female . — Allied to Acropliylla , but witli the head and pro-notum 
spined above; wings not longer than broad; ovipositor boat-shaped, 
keeled below, extending considerably beyond the abdomen.” In 
the species described below, the head and pro-notum are devoid of 
spines, and the wings are somewhat longer than broad, consequently 
it will have to come in between Acropliylla , Gray, and Enetia , W. 
F. Kirby. 
Order ORTHOPTERA. 
Family Phasmid.®. 
Sub-Family Pterophasmina. 
Genus Clemacantha, gen. nov. 
Characters of Genus. — allied to Acrophylla ; wings longer 
than broad ; ovipositor boat-shaped, keeled below, extending con- 
siderably beyond the abdomen. 
Clemacantha regale, sp. nov. 
(PL ix., Figs. 1, 2, and 3.) 
? . Measurements (in millimeters) : Length from base of antennae 
to tip of abdomen, excluding ovipositor and anal styles, 177 ; ex- 
panse of wings, 190 ; length of head, 9 ; antennae, 20 ; pro- 
notum, 8-9; meso-notum, 26*8; meta-notum, 14*1; abdomen, 111; 
* Ann. and Mag. Nat, Hist., Yol. viii., 6th Series, 1891, pp. 150-151. 
