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webs which were attached to the ball and a leaf of the tree 
some six inches away from the ball. On looking at these 
small spiders under a glass I found they were all like the 
parent spider, but most minute. But strange to say, now 
they have all disappeared, and I can come to no other con- 
clusion than that the parent spider must have devoured: them. 
There is no other spider like it on or near this tree, and how 
these young ones came is to me a mystery, unless both sexes 
are combined in this creature, which is now- about 4 of an 
inch across the abdomen. 
Last evening J found the second ball had a small hole 
in it like the top one, but no young spiders are yet to be seen 
about. On looking at the spider this morning, for the first 
time I found it feeding on what appears to me to be a bee 
moth. 3 
NOTES ON THE SPINY GREEN PHASMA. 
(EXTATOSOMA TIARATUM.) 
Water W. Froaaarr, F.L.S. 
Among the many curious and striking examples of pro- 
tective mimicry found among the leaf or stick insects of the 
Family Phasmidae there is none more remarkable in form and 
colouration than that of Hatatosoma tiaratum. 
In the appendix to Captain Philip P. King’s “Narrative 
of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Aus- 
tralia” which was published in London in 1827, W. 8S. Macleay 
worked out the Zoological collections and described this inseet 
under the name of Phasma tiaratum giving a life size drawing 
of the typical adult green female. JI have found a specimen of 
a female labelled “New Holland” in the Macleay Museum Col- 
lection which is probably this type. : 
In 1833 George Robert Gray, the then Secretary of the 
Entomological Society of London, issued the first part of his 
“Bntomology of Australia,’ and in the introduction says, that 
he intends to publish a similar monograph on various groups 
of Australian Insects, each complete in itself, with eight plates, 
at intervals of about six months. ‘This, however, was the only 
number published. This first memoir was entitled “A Mono- 
graph of the Genus Phasma,’ with eight coloured plates, each 
