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PSYCHE. 



[February 1895. 



November, Fischer (Orth. Eur., 369, 

 374) referred the former species to his 

 new genus Platyphyma and the latter 

 to Pezotettix. Fischer has been gener- 

 ally followed, but it is plain that Platy- 

 phyma must give way to Pelecyclus, 

 which in its term must yield precedence 

 to Pezotettix ; of which giornae becomes 

 the type, while pedestris becomes the 

 type of Podisma. The numerous 

 species, therefore, which in recent 

 years, both in this country and in 

 Europe have been referred to Pezotettix 

 must be classed imder Podisma. 



The early use of the term Podisma 

 previous to t8';3 and after 1S29 (other 

 than we liave given) also sufficientlv 

 confirms the appropriateness of restoring 

 Podisma for the species now generally 



included in Pezotettix ; for Fischer de 

 Waldheim in 1846 (Orth. Russ. 249- 

 253) used it for six species of which 

 the first three belong to Pezotettix 

 of modern writers, tlie next two to 

 Chrj'ochraon, while the last is not rec- 

 ognizable. [The second species, P. 

 prim7toa Motsch., has also not been 

 recognized by later writers but I pos- 

 sess specimens from diflerent places 

 in Transbaicalia] ; Borck in 1S48 

 (Skand. riitv. ins. nat. hist., 87-92) 

 refers to it pedestris and frigida ; and 

 finally H. Fisciier himself first used it, 

 in 1S49 (15 Jahresb. Mannh. ver. 

 nat., 38) for frigida. His reason for 

 later (Oith. Eur., 365, note) supplant- 

 ing Podisma lay Pezotettix cannot be 

 defended. 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF ENTOMOBRYA. 



BY F. L. HARVEY, c)ROXO, ME. 



Entomobrya hexfasciata, n. sp. 



Ground color greenish yellow. Body 

 clothed with short, downy hairs and numer- 

 ous long bowed plumose clubbed hairs, 

 which give the insect a shaggy appearance. 

 Head as long as broad. Square behind and 

 widest in the posterior third. A small, dark 

 spot at the base of each antenna joined by a 

 narrow line of the same color, but not 

 reaching the eye patches. Eye patches dark, 

 narrow, three times as long as wide. Anten- 

 nae stout, purplish. The terminal joint 

 pale purple throughout. The other joints 

 tipped with dark purple, while the bases are 

 pale yellow. The purple tip is especially 

 conspicuous on the basal joint. The very 

 short basal ring is here ignored and the 



antennae described as only tour jointed. 

 The basal joint shortest, the third slightly 

 longer than the second and the terminal a 

 half.longer than the third. Body fusiform. 

 Mesonotum as broad as the head. Body 

 widest at the anterior suture of the fourth 

 abdominal segment. The fourth abdominal 

 segment not quite as long as the three pre- 

 ceding taken together. There is no dark band 

 along the side of the body. Mesonotum, 

 raetanolnm and second abdominal segment 

 with bi'oad fascia along the anteriof border. 

 First abdominal segment marked along the 

 anterior border with a row of fine dots. 

 Band on tlie third located in the middle and 

 nearly as wide as the segment. Fourth 

 segment with a band along the posterior 

 margin, which connects with a triangular 



