236 THE AUSIRALIAN NATURALIS1. 
containing two figures; upon the eighth plate he figured the male: 
and female of this phasma, calling the female, previously des- 
cribed by Macleay ‘“Macleay’s Dilated-bodied Spectre’ (Ha- 
tatosoma tiaratum) and the slender winged male as a new 
species “Hope’s Dilated-bodied Spectre’ (Hatatosoma hopei.) 
As the male is figured life size, the female is so much 
smaller in proportion, that it was evidently an immature speci- 
men he had before him. The drawings and descriptions were 
taken from specimens in the famous “Hope Collection” made 
by the Rev. Fredrick Thomas Hope, containing many types of 
Australian insects, and now part of the Zoological Museum of 
the University of Oxford. 
Gray says that Allen Cunningham collected and brought to 
England -most of the Phasmids he figured, and informed him 
that they were found on sapling gum trees in the neighbour- 
hood of Sydney. 
This Phasma was figured and described in an article con- 
tributed. to the Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales in 
1905 “Sticks and Leaf Insects,” and the drawings are repro- 
duced in Australian Insects. 
The spiny green Phasmids are not only variable in general 
colouration according to the tint of the foliage upon which they 
rest, ranging from dark green to deep yellow, but the body and 
legs are often curiously mottled with patches of creamy white, 
grey; and brown in imitation of the patches of moss and lichen 
upon the surrounding leaves and twigs, the arcuations and 
spines upon the body and legs, representing the thorns and ser- 
rations of the leaves of the shrubs of the coastal scrub. i 
Under ordinary conditions they rest among the foliage dur- 
‘ng the day, feeding at night, but when disturbed despite the 
swollen body and ungainly shape they can moye about quickly, 
but when frightened have a quaint habit of resting upon the 
lower portion of the body and hind legs with the head, thorax 
and two front pairs of legs raised upward, the conical head 
pointed at the apex with beady eyes looking as if it was turned 
upside down. Remaining often for a long time without a move- 
ment she looks remarkably like some weird Chinese carving. 
This Phasma has an, extended range along the coast, of 
New South Wales from near Sydney to the Tweed River, she!- 
tering in the semi-tropical brushes, and most of the specimens _ 
obtained in the orchards where they are not in harmony with 
