﻿.NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCrDBEB. 
  \()\ 
  

  

  2. 
  PODISMA 
  VARIEGATA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  VII, 
  fig. 
  4.) 
  

   Pezotetfix 
  gJacialis 
  Comstock!, 
  Iiitr. 
  Ent., 
  1888, 
  p. 
  107. 
  

  

  Pallid 
  testaceous 
  with 
  an 
  olivaceous 
  tinge, 
  variegated 
  with 
  dark 
  glis- 
  

   tening 
  fuscous 
  or 
  chocolate 
  brown 
  in 
  which 
  also 
  an 
  olivaceous 
  tinge 
  

   may 
  be 
  detected, 
  pilose. 
  Head 
  pallid 
  olivaceo-testaceons, 
  blotched 
  

   with 
  olivaceo-fuscons 
  on 
  the 
  genae, 
  and 
  heavily 
  infu 
  seated 
  above, 
  with 
  

   a 
  broad 
  postocular 
  olivaceo-fuscons 
  band; 
  vertex 
  somewhat 
  tumid, 
  

   slightly 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotuni, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  

   a 
  little 
  broader 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  first 
  anten- 
  

   nal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  considerably 
  declivent, 
  straight, 
  and 
  not 
  arcuate, 
  

   in 
  the 
  male 
  lying 
  below, 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  at, 
  the 
  upper 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  eyes 
  

   so 
  as 
  not 
  to 
  be 
  wholly 
  seen 
  on 
  a 
  side 
  view, 
  a 
  little 
  sulcate, 
  abruptly 
  

   and 
  angularly 
  expanded 
  a 
  little 
  anteriorly; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  failing 
  to 
  

   reach 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  subequal, 
  but 
  faintly 
  contracted 
  at 
  the 
  ocellus 
  and 
  

   as 
  faintly 
  expanding 
  between 
  the 
  antennae, 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  (male) 
  or 
  slightly 
  

   narrower 
  than 
  (female) 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  sulcate 
  except- 
  

   ing 
  above, 
  sparsely 
  punctate 
  above; 
  eyes 
  rather 
  small, 
  very 
  prominent 
  

   in 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  (male) 
  or 
  a 
  

   little 
  shorter 
  than 
  (female) 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  

   lighter 
  or 
  darker 
  olivaceo-fuscons, 
  distinctly 
  longer 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  

   the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  I'ronotum 
  subequal, 
  faintly 
  subselliform 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  

   expanding 
  feebly 
  iiosteriorly 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  the 
  disk 
  dull 
  bronze 
  oliva- 
  

   ceous 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  pallid 
  testaceous 
  with 
  a 
  mediodorsal, 
  irregular 
  but 
  

   not 
  broad, 
  dark 
  chocolate 
  fuscous 
  stripe 
  and 
  dark 
  transverse 
  sulci 
  in 
  

   the 
  male, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  glistening 
  pale 
  testaceous 
  below, 
  above 
  with 
  a 
  

   very 
  broad, 
  percurrent, 
  glistening 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  band, 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  

   deeply 
  tinged 
  with 
  olivaceous; 
  disk 
  strongly 
  convex, 
  passing 
  insen- 
  

   sibly 
  into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  slight, 
  percurrent, 
  

   equal: 
  front 
  and 
  hind 
  margins 
  truncate, 
  the 
  latter 
  feebly 
  emarginate 
  

   mesiallj^; 
  prozona 
  quadrate 
  in 
  both 
  sexes, 
  sparsely, 
  feebly, 
  and 
  rather 
  

   coarsely 
  punctate 
  (particularly 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  and 
  posteriorly), 
  twice 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  almost 
  twice 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  obscurely, 
  finely, 
  and 
  not 
  

   densely 
  punctate 
  metazoua. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  short, 
  blunt, 
  conical; 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  a 
  little 
  transverse 
  and 
  nearly 
  or 
  

   quite 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  lobes 
  (male) 
  or 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  long, 
  fully 
  as 
  

   broad 
  as 
  the 
  lobes 
  (female), 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  approximate 
  (male) 
  

   or 
  distant, 
  but 
  much 
  less 
  so 
  than 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  (female). 
  Teg- 
  

   mina 
  wanting. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  somewhat 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  

   and 
  distinctly 
  shorter 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  dark 
  olivaceous; 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   flavo-testaceous, 
  broadly 
  trifasciate 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  besides 
  a 
  

   blackish 
  geniculation, 
  the 
  under 
  surface 
  pale 
  or 
  dull 
  coral 
  red; 
  hind 
  

   tibiae 
  bronze 
  green 
  or 
  olive 
  green, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  almost 
  from 
  their 
  

   base, 
  ten, 
  rarely 
  eleven, 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Abdomen 
  

   hardly 
  (male) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  (female) 
  compressed, 
  with 
  a 
  distinct 
  median 
  

  

  