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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF SOOTHSAYERS. 
colour, and the base of the first joint of the anterior tarsi, which is 
white. The prothorax is rather short, and dilated at the sides 
over the base of the fore-feet, as is also the hinder margin; the 
abdomen also has the sides dilated. The tegmina are destitute 
of the small horny patch, so conspicuous in some of the species of 
the genus ; the hind wings are fulvous-browm, with the anal angle 
broadly browm, the veins in the latter part being yellow ; the 
posterior femora and tibim being simple. The entire body beneath 
is also blue-black. 
STENOPHYLLA, JVestw, 
Corpus elongatum valde angustiim. Caput cornu porrecto apico truncatum spinaquo sutbifida 
utrinque ante oculos armatum. Oculi ovales. Antennas subgraciles. Protborax vix 
meso- et meta-thorace longior, supra insertionem pedum auticorum dilatatas. Abdomen 
longum gracile parallelum scgmentis apicalibus brevissimis parum latioribus, ultimo supra 
conico, subtus in spinis duabus brevibus divaricatis desinente; cerci anales valde elongati 
(prothoraco paullo longiores), compress! ad basin articulatis, apicibus parum emarginatis. 
Pedes antici elongati, 4 postici breves femoribus foliatis tibiisque extus foUo rudimentali 
instructia. Tegmina ct alte posticte perfecta angusta. 
The singular head and tails of the insect represented in figure 2 
at once distinguish it from every other insect in the present family. 
Elongated tails are indeed found especially in Tarachodes Per- 
loides, a new insect, described by Dr. Burmeister, from the Cape 
of Good Hope; but the head and feet in that genus are quite 
unlike those of the present species, and the tails themselves are 
described by Burmeister as threads, whereas they are flat 
and thin in the present insect, the basal portion alone being 
articulated. This divarication from the normal, small, conical, 
articulated form of these appendages is seen in but very few other 
species of the family, and in none to the extent here exhibited. 
The Toxodera denticulata of Serville, from Java^, has them broad 
and foliaceous, but comparatively short, and from this character 
M. Serville has assumed a relationship wdth the Phasmidse. The 
species figured in my first volume, pL 41, under the name of Toxo¬ 
dera (Heterocheeta) tenuipes, possesses similarly dilated, foliaceous 
appendages, as do also Vates Ashmolianusf, W., a native of the 
East Indies, of w’hich the characters are given in a note below, and 
the Australian Mantis latistylus of Serville. 
STENOPHY LLA CORNIGERA, TV^estio, (Plate 62, fig. 2.) 
St, fusca, brunneo varia, tegminibus basi pallide luteis striga obliqua fusca, costa venisque 
ongitudmalibua fusco-guttatis; alis basi fiiscis violaceo micantibus, venis transversis, iu 
dimidiobasah alarum costaque fuscis. 
Long. corp. uuc. Expans, tegminum unc. 24, 
Habitat in Brasilia interiori. In Mus. D. Hope. 
The plant represented in the plate is the elegant Brazilian 
jNIanettia cordifoHa of Yon Martins. 
+ P- 25, pi. 2: and Hist. n. Orth., p. 169, pi, 5. 
t axes Ashmolianus, Westw. (Annals of Nat. Hist., Dec. 1841), fuscas capitis vertice 
