DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW AUSTRALIAN PHASMAS— RAINBOW. 35 
anal styles, 12*5 ; ovipositor, 42; anterior femora, 3 6'5; hind 
femora, 40; tegmina, 40; greatest width of abdomen, 12*5; 
tegmina, 14 ; wing, 56. 
Head pale yellow above, with broad median longitudinal bar of 
bright blue, sides blue above, pea-green below; face green ; eyes 
black on narrow whitish wings ; occili bright, glassy, with a 
reddish-brown tint ; antennae 2 5 -join ted, slightly pubescent. 
Pro-notum green above, yellowish in the median line, white 
laterally, yellow below with green margins; meso-notum yellow 
with broad median bar of bright blue, sides pea-green in front, 
darker behind, yellow below ; the upper surface, sides, and under 
surface furnished with spines varying in size, those above and 
below are blue, and those at the sides green ; the spines on the 
ventral surface are uniform in size, ten in number, arranged 
obliquely and in pairs, and surrounded with patches of blue ; 
met a- no turn yellowish in front, green behind, with a median longi- 
tudinal line of blue, sides yellow in front, green behind, the lower 
margins are also green, and furnished with a row of small green 
spines; ventral surface yellow, ornamented with four transverse 
bars of blue, and armed with eight spines; of these the anterior bar 
is the shortest and narrowest, the third and fourth is the longest 
and broadest ; with the exception of the anterior bar. which is 
horizontal, all are slightly curved in a forward direction, and 
each bar is armed with a spine near its lateral extremity. 
Abdomen long, broadest at the middle, tapering, bright green 
above with narrow median line of blue, under-surface pea-green ; 
anal styles long, green ; ovipositor projecting considerably beyond 
the abdomen, green, boat-shaped, keeled below. 
Tegmina, elongate, ovate, green above, with white longitudinal 
bars and patches, the bars suffused with purple ; underneath the 
anterior margin is bright red, and edged with green. 
Wings : above, the costal area is bright green with white longi- 
tudinal bars suffused with purple, and the base bright red; 
underneath, the entire surface is bright red also ; membranous 
portion pea-green. 
Legs long, slender, with denticulated ridges, mottled with green 
and yellow ; tibii of hind pair strongly spined on the inner side ; 
first joint of tarsi longest, and the fifth longer than the fourth ; 
claws long and strong. 
Bah . Narrabri. 
Three specimens similar to the one described, but with the 
meso-notum less strongly spined, are in the collection of the Aus- 
tralian Museum, and were taken at Wide Bay, Queensland. The 
specimen from which the description is written was captured by 
Mrs. Langhorne, Oreel Station, Narrabri. The Australian ver- 
nacular name for these insects is “ Native Ladies.” 
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