. The Australian Museum magazine. Natural history. 180 THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM MAGAZINE. genus Poclacanthus. These usually have the hard parts of the wings green in colour and the fore wings are gene- rally leaf-like. The males arc smaller than the females, and their abdomens are slen- der instead of being broad. The female of the Pink- winged Phasma {Podacan- thtis typhon) is, perhaps, our most l)eautifully coloured species. When the wings are outspread the memljranous portion is seen to be liyaline in colour and tinged with pink. The l)ases of the hard fore border of the hind wings are reddish
. The Australian Museum magazine. Natural history. 180 THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM MAGAZINE. genus Poclacanthus. These usually have the hard parts of the wings green in colour and the fore wings are gene- rally leaf-like. The males arc smaller than the females, and their abdomens are slen- der instead of being broad. The female of the Pink- winged Phasma {Podacan- thtis typhon) is, perhaps, our most l)eautifully coloured species. When the wings are outspread the memljranous portion is seen to be liyaline in colour and tinged with pink. The l)ases of the hard fore border of the hind wings are reddish pink, the rest being green. It mea- sures five inches in length and eight inches across the outspread wings. It occurs in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Another pink-winged form (PocJacantJius viridi-roseus) rasembles the preceding species but is smaller in size and tlie bases of the hind wings are violet in colour instead of reddish-pink. This violet colour, however, fades after death, and the wliole of the thickened fore bor- der of the hind-wings appears a uniform green. The female measures al)out four and a half inches in length and nearly seven inches across the expanded wings. It ranges from Queensland to Victoria. The Gregarious Phasmid, or Ring- barker (Podacnnthus wilkinsoni) is an exceptional stick insect, in that the two sexes are of the same length. I'hey are extremely plentiful in the New England district of New South Wales, where they do great damage, denuding the ei;calyp- tus trees of their leaves so that they appear to have died from the effects of ring-l)arking. This destructive habit has earned for them their vernacular name of "; They are said to ap- pear about the lioginning of January and deposit theii- eggs towards the end of Male (left) and female (right) of the Great Brown Phasma (Vetilia titan), our commonest species. riioto.—A. Musgrave. The female measures about three and a half inches in length, so it i
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