PHASMID INJURY TO THE HUMAN EYE

Abstract

It has long been known that some of the Phasmidae discharge a fetid fluid from certain glands. King (1867) published a note on his observations of a phasmid in Jamaica, identified as Anisomorpha buprestoides (Stoll) but which Bates believed to be a true Phasma, in which he stated that the prothorax contains two glands, secreting a fetid fluid which is discharged through two elevated pores and serves as a defensive agent. This author further stated that these nocturnal, or crepuscular, and gregarious insects are almost always found in the adult stage in copulation.