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ORTHOPTERA. 
Species. Phasma (Cyphocrana) Gigas : viridis ; rnesothorace scabro ; tegminibus ovalibus ; 
alis (area costali viridi,) obscure fulvis fusco undatis ; pedibus spinosis, flavo* 
viridibus. Long. Corp. unc. 7. Expans. alar. unc. 7. 
Phasma (Cyphocrana): green; mesothorax scabrous; wing-covers small oval; 
wings, (with the costal area green,) dirty fulvous with brown waves ; legs spinose, 
yellowish-green. Length 7 inches. Expanse of the wings 7 inches. 
Syn. Mantis Gigas, Linn. Syst. Nat. 2 . 689. Fab. Ent. Syst. vol. 2 , p. 14. Ent. Syst. 
Suppl. p. 187. Shaiv Miscell. pi. 43. Donovan , 1st edit. ( nec Phasma (Diaphe- 
rodes) Gigas, Drury, 2. pi. 50.) 
Cyphocrana Gigas, Serville Ann. Sc. Nat. XXII. p. 60. Gray Synops. Phasm. p. 35. 
Le Geant. Stoll Spectres, pi. 2, Jig. 5. 
Donovan observed of this insect, that it was the largest species of this very extra- 
ordinary genus known, and that this specimen was from the island of Amboyna, where 
it was rare. It is, however, exceeded in size by the Phasma (Diura) Titan of MacLeay, 
figured by Gray, in his beautiful Memoir of the Phasmidae of New Holland, plate 4, 
PHASMA (PLATYCRANA) EDULE 
Plate X. 
Subgenus. Platycrana, Gray. Cyphocrana, Serville. 
Species. Phasma (Platycrana) Edule : viridis ; rnesothorace tereti ; $ scabro, $ glabro ; 
tegminibus area costali viridi, basi coccineis ; pedibus brevibus, submuticis ; 
femoribus posticis spinosis. Long. Corp. $ unc. 6 . Expans. alar. unc. 4\. 
Phasma (Platycrana) : green ; with the mesothorax slender ; scabrous in the male, 
smooth in the female ; wing-covers with the costal area green, pink at the base ; 
legs short, almost smooth ; posterior femora spined. Length of the body ? 6 inches. 
Expanse of the wings 4\ inches. 
Syn. Phasma edule, Licht. in Linn. Trans, tom. 6 , p. 13. 
Mantis viridis, Donovan, 1st edit. 
Le Spectre verd, Stoll, pi. 6 , Jig. 20 9 , 21 $. 
Mantis viridana, Oliv. Enc. Meth. 7. 636. Serville Revis. Orthopt. p. 33. (Ann. Sc. 
Nat. 20 . p. 60.) Gray Synops. Phasm. p 36. (Platycrana v.) 
Donovan states that he received this species also from Amboyna, where it is, 
perhaps, more scarce than the preceding insect. 
