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Insects.
Phyllium Donovani, G.R. Gray. Female: abdomen narrow at us base, increasing to the middle of the third segment, and then gradually narrowing to the tip, with two ocellated spots on the fourth segment. Length 1 inch 5 lines, breadth 6¾ lines. Donovan's Ins. of Ind. pi. (upper figure). Phyllium Donovani, G.R. Gray, Syn. of Phasm. 31.

Inhabits ——?

Division c.—The outer dilation dentated internally, and with more or less of a
triangular form.


Phyllium bilobatum.


Phyllium bilobatum. Female: abdomen narrow at the base, enlarging on each side to the middle of the third segment, and then gradually decreasing to the end of the fifth; the outer margins of the sixth and seventh are lobed, with the remaining segments suddenly lessened to the tip. Femora of the fore legs dilated; the inner dilation has the margin inwardly entire and outwardly much dentated, the outer dilation oval and entire, (see fig. c, p. 121). Length of body 2 inches 9 lines.

Inhabits the Philippine islands. In the cabinet of the British Museum.

Phyllium crurifolium, Serv. Male and female: abdomen ovular. Femora of the fore legs dilated, the outer dilation more extended than in P. siccifolium, and in the form of a triangle, with the internal side distinctly dentate, the inner dilation is denticulated towards the extremity. Length 2¾ inches, breadth 1 inch 4 lines. Phyllium crurifolium, Serv. Orthopt. 291.

Inhabits the East Indies. In the cabinet of the British Museum.