﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  TEE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDER. 
  107 
  

  

  H. 
  Sciulder; 
  U.S.KM. 
  [No. 
  727].— 
  Eiley 
  collection) 
  ; 
  Sierra 
  Blanca, 
  Colo- 
  

   rado, 
  12,000 
  to 
  13,000 
  feet, 
  August 
  29; 
  Georgetown, 
  Clear 
  Creek 
  

   County, 
  Colorado, 
  8,500 
  to 
  9,000 
  feet, 
  July 
  12-13; 
  North 
  Park, 
  Colo- 
  

   rado 
  (L. 
  Bruner); 
  Poudre 
  Kiver, 
  Colorado, 
  June 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Riley 
  col- 
  

   lection); 
  Beaver 
  Brook, 
  Jefferson 
  County, 
  Colorado, 
  (5,000 
  feet, 
  July 
  

   11; 
  Laramie, 
  Albany 
  County, 
  Wyoming 
  (L. 
  Bruner); 
  Wasatch 
  Moun- 
  

   tains 
  near 
  Beaver, 
  Utah, 
  August 
  1-4, 
  E. 
  Palmer. 
  

  

  It 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  reported 
  from 
  the 
  mountain 
  sides 
  in 
  Clear 
  Creek 
  

   Canyon, 
  Colorado 
  (Uhler), 
  from 
  Brush 
  Creek, 
  Colorado, 
  12,000 
  feet 
  

   (Cockerell), 
  from 
  Colorado 
  (Stiil), 
  and 
  from 
  Montana 
  (Bruner). 
  

  

  I 
  formerly 
  compared 
  this 
  insect 
  to 
  the 
  European 
  Podisma 
  aljyinaYSbr. 
  

   montan((, 
  but 
  it 
  should 
  rather 
  be 
  com^jared 
  to 
  Podisma 
  pedestris 
  on 
  

   account 
  of 
  its 
  much 
  shorter 
  subgenital 
  plate, 
  though 
  in 
  its 
  cerci 
  it 
  is 
  

   more 
  nearly 
  related 
  to 
  the 
  former 
  ; 
  it 
  can 
  not 
  be 
  confounded 
  with 
  either, 
  

   but 
  is 
  more 
  nearly 
  related 
  to 
  Podisma 
  pedestris 
  than 
  to 
  any 
  other 
  

   American 
  type. 
  

  

  By 
  the 
  kindness 
  of 
  Doctor 
  Aurivillius, 
  of 
  Stockholm, 
  I 
  have 
  received 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  type 
  specimens 
  of 
  Stal's 
  Pczotettix 
  hohemani, 
  and 
  been 
  able 
  

   to 
  compare 
  it 
  with 
  the 
  types 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  nominal 
  species 
  mentioned 
  in 
  

   the 
  synonymy. 
  

  

  6. 
  PODISMA 
  ASCENSOR, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  VII, 
  fig. 
  8.) 
  

   Pezotettix 
  dodgei 
  Scudder!, 
  Bull. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geol. 
  Surv, 
  Terr., 
  II 
  (1876), 
  p. 
  261. 
  

  

  Brownish 
  testaceous 
  above, 
  dull 
  testaceous 
  below. 
  Head 
  testaceous, 
  

   feebly 
  olivaceous, 
  embrowned 
  above; 
  vertex 
  feebly 
  tumid, 
  not 
  elevated 
  

   above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  

   again 
  (male) 
  or 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  (female) 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  

   fastigium 
  moderately 
  declivent, 
  broadly 
  and 
  very 
  shallowly 
  sulcate; 
  

   frontal 
  costa 
  percurrent, 
  equal, 
  a 
  little 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  faintly 
  

   and 
  finely 
  biseriately 
  punctate 
  above; 
  eyes 
  of 
  moderate 
  size, 
  not 
  at 
  all 
  

   prominent, 
  similar 
  in 
  the 
  two 
  sexes, 
  anteriorly 
  truncate, 
  slightly 
  longer, 
  

   especially 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  anten- 
  

   nae 
  testaceous, 
  apically 
  infuscated, 
  about 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  

   femora 
  in 
  both 
  sexes. 
  Pronotum 
  feebly 
  and 
  regularly 
  expanding 
  pos- 
  

   teriorly, 
  with 
  a 
  min^e 
  or 
  less 
  broken 
  and 
  irregular 
  piceous 
  postocular 
  

   band 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  prozona, 
  tlie 
  disk 
  broadly 
  convex 
  and 
  passing 
  by 
  

   a 
  rounded 
  shoulder, 
  nowhere 
  forming 
  distinct 
  lateral 
  carinae, 
  into 
  the 
  

   anteriorly 
  tumid 
  subveitical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  slight, 
  jier. 
  

   current, 
  subequal 
  but 
  slighter 
  on 
  the 
  prozona 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  metazoua; 
  

   front 
  border 
  truncate, 
  hind 
  border 
  rotundatoobtusangulate; 
  prozoua 
  

   longitudinally 
  (male) 
  or 
  transversely 
  (female) 
  subquadrate, 
  slightly 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  scarcely 
  (female) 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  finely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  

   Prosternal 
  spine 
  of 
  moderate 
  length, 
  stout, 
  conical, 
  not 
  very 
  blunt; 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  long, 
  but 
  

  

  