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yellowish-green, with a greenish stripe down the niirldle of the frontal ridge. 

 Sulcus and interior carina of the under side of the hind femora coral-red ; 

 remainder yellowish-green, with two broad bands of dark-green across the 

 outside; apex black; tibias green. 



Male diifers as follows: meso-notum and meta-notum bright-green; 

 whole dorsal surface black, with a dorsal row of yellowish-green spots, and a 

 triangular spot of the same color between the middle and posterior coxse ; a 

 lateral row of greenish-yellow spots on 1-8 abdominal segments. 



Dimensions. — 5 Length, 0.82 inch. $ Length, 0.G5 inch. 



White Mountains, New Hampshire (Scudder). 



P. manca, Smith, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., 1868, 149. 



Vertex sulcate, narrow between the eyes, expanding in front ; frontal 

 ridge sulcate and depressed at the ocellus; eyes but little elongated, not 

 very prominent; antennae not passing the thorax. Pronotum slightly 

 divergent behind, front truncate, apex slightly rounded ; lateral carinas indis- 

 tinct, median small but distinct; posterior lateral margins very oblique. 

 Prosternal spine prominent, blunt. Elytra very small, oval, not crossing the 

 first abdominal segment, and not meeting on the back ; wings wanting. Ab- 

 domen carinate. 



Color (siccus). — Occiput, disk of pronotum, and elytra brown. Sides 

 of the pronotum smooth and shining in front of the last transverse impression; 

 behind it thickly punctate ; a broad, black band extending from the eyes over 

 the upper half of the pronotum, and continued upon the other thoracic 

 segments and along the side of the abdomen, inclosing on the thorax an 

 oblique whitish spot, which extends from the base of elytra to the posterior 

 coxae. Hind femora brown, yellow below, banded with black above; tibiae 

 bright-red. 



Dimensions. — 9 Length, 0.81 inch ; elytra, 0.17 inch ; posterior femora, 

 0.42 inch. 3 Length, 0.65 inch ; elytra, 0.16 inch ; posterior femora, 0.35 

 inch. 



Speckled Mountain, Maine (S. I. Smith). 



P. borckii, Thos. 



Syn., Aeridium (Podisma) borclcii, St&l, Eugen. Kesa., SO. 

 Dark-testaceous ; antennae and posterior femora paler, the latter with 

 two shining, fuscous spots on the internal face and disk of external face. 



