The cabinet of oriental entomology : being a selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time discribed and figured

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Title: The cabinet of oriental entomology : being a selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time discribed and figured
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS Tippmann Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Insects Insects
Publisher: London : William Smith, 113 Fleet Street
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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s intermediis brevioribus, femoribusdilatatis et spinulis nonnuUis armatis ; femoribus anticis et posticis etiam intus ad apicem bispiuulosis. Phasma wingless, luteous-green, smooth, cylindrical, the hind parts of the meso-and metathorax dilated ; the head armed with 8 spines arranged into a circular crown, the thorax and abdomen nearly equal in length, the prothorax unarmed, the mesothorax with the sides spinulose and with two spines in the middle of the back and two closetogether near the middle of the hind margin ; the sides of the metathorax spinulose aud armed with two spinesbeyond the middle of the back : the abdomen slender, with the maigins of the segments subinigose, the extremityclavate and longitudinally cleft ; the middle legs shorter than the rest, the thighs dilated and armed with a fewshort spines, the anterior and posterior thighs also armed within at the tips with two short spmes (male). Length of the insect 3 inches. Inhabits Assam. Communicated by Lieutenant Robinson.
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PLATE XXXIX. (ORDER—ORTIIOPTERA. Section—AMnuLAToniA. Family—Piiasmid^.) FIGURE 1.PHASMA (NECROSCIA!) CURTIPES. Westw. Fhasma olongatum cylindricum, nlbido-fuscum, capito posticc spinis numcrosis arraato, prothorace spinulls 8 perparia dispositis, mesotlioraco (prothorace plus quam triplo longiori) valdc spinoso, spinis anticis majoribus ;tegiuinibus griseis medio in tuborculo magno conico elevatis ; alis abdomine brevioribua pallidc fuscis, area costaligriseo fusco-que varia, abdomine valde elongato, inermi, segmento .5to ad apicem supra elcvato, oviductu brevisimpliei ; pedibus, proesertim intermediis, brevibus, simplicibus, femoribus anticis parum dilatatis, articulo primotarsorum anticorum valde elongate. Fhasma elongated, cylindric, buff-brown coloured, the hind part of the head armed with numerous spines ; theprothorax armed witli 8 small spines aiTanged in pairs ; the mesothorax elongated (more than thrice the length ofthe prothorax), very spiuose above, the anterior spin

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