32 THE entomologist's record. 



Size medium ; colour greyish and brown, mottled : Antennae very 

 long. Frons and occiput heavily marbled with brown and cream ; the 

 latter with a median pale line ; eyes of the same colour. Pronotum 

 depressed, the disc similarly marbled, with a pale median line ; median 

 keel prominent in posterior portion ; lateral flaps dark brown, w^ith a 

 broad cream margin posteriorly and anteriorly. Prosternum unarmed. 

 Legs gre3'-brown, mottled and marbled with darker; posterior femora 

 with longitudinal black band on the outer face. Elytra abbreviated, 

 reaching the sixth abdominal segment in the $ , the fifth in the 

 female, apically rounded, grey-brown, the veins darker and prominent. 

 Abdomen dull reddish-brown. Anal segment in the 3 deeply roundly 

 excavate, Avith short, rounded lobes. Cerci J surpassing subgenital 

 lamina, cylindrical, with a small tooth near the apex ; subgenital 

 lamina ^ tricarinate, with a small round apical emargination, with 

 rounded lobes and short styles. Anal segment $ incised ; cerci 2 

 shorter than in 3 , not toothed ; subgenital lamina not keeled nor 

 sulcate, with a rounded emargination and rounded lobes. Ovipositor 

 very gently curved, more than twice as long as the pronotum. 



Madeira. — Grand Corral, October 2nd, 1910, 1 ^ , 1 2 , (in cm.). 



This is a very distinct species ; its nearest relatives are perhaps 

 P. mofiesta, Fieb. (S. E. Europe), P. saiissnreana, Frey-Gessner (C. 

 Europe), P. hraclii/ptera, L. (C. Europe), and P. ftisra, Br. (Greece). 

 The ovipositor is longer and straighter than in any of these except the 

 last. The cerci of the male are shorter and the tooth much smaller 

 than in /'. saiisftureana, P. hracJv/ptera and P. iiindesta, and the lobes of 

 the supra-anal plate are short and rounded, not acute. 



The subgenital lamina of the female is not sulcate, though the 

 lobes and emargination are rounded. This suggests relationship to 

 the fully winged group of 7'. (jrisea, Fabr., and its allies. The long 

 ovipositor at once removes it from the group of P. ti'ssellata, Charp. 



It is probably restricted to thehigher parts of the island of Madeira. 

 My attention was attracted by the stridulation, on the steep, grassy 

 and rocky slopes near the Grand Corral, on leaving the tree zone. I 

 only observed it in one restricted locality, and though I saw several 

 specimens I was only able to catch a pair. 



It is dedicated, with real pleasure, to Father Jayme de Gouvea 

 Barreto, the genial Curator of the most interesting Museum, founded 

 by Father Schmitz, in the Seminario in Funchal. 



It is the only know-n saltatorial Orthopteron peculiar to the island. 



List of Orthoptera known from Madeira. 



Dermapteba. — Labidni-a riparia, Pall. ; Anisolabis annidipes, Luc. ; 

 Labia niiuor, L.; L. curvicaiula, Motsch. ; Penrrlii/tiis edentidus, Woll. ; 

 P. wadeirensis, Bor. ; Pwiidochelidnra sclnir'tzii, Bor. ; For/iciila 

 anriciilaria, L. 



Blattodea. — llololaiiipra infi()nata,Tiv.; Ldboptcradecipiens, Germ. ; 

 Pi/ii/parohia viaderae, Fabr. 



Mantodea. — Mantis iclitfidna, L. 



AcRiDioDKA. — CliortliippiiK pitlvinatiis, F. de W. ; Kpacromia stirpens, 

 Fabr.; K. thalaasina, Latr. ; StaKroimtns iiuirocranits, Thunb. ; 

 Parlii/tt/liis da7iin(K, L. ; (^cdaleus nif/rofasiatiis, De Geer. ; Siihint/onotits 

 caernlans, L. ; .' Thalpmiirna iiiadcrac, Serv. ; Calcptciuis italiens, L. ;. 

 Schistocerca pereijrina, Oliv. 



