﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUBDER. 
  113 
  

  

  lo. 
  PODISMA 
  COBELLII. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  YIII, 
  fig. 
  2.) 
  

  

  rezoieitix 
  cohellii 
  Krauss, 
  Verb. 
  Zool.-Bot. 
  Ges. 
  Wieii, 
  XXXIII 
  (1883), 
  pp. 
  222, 
  

  

  223. 
  fig. 
  2. 
  

   Pezoieitix 
  salnmandra 
  Cobelli, 
  Ort. 
  Gen. 
  Trent. 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  15. 
  

  

  Hofratli 
  Brunner 
  von 
  Wattenwyl 
  has 
  kindly 
  loaned 
  me 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  this 
  

   little 
  known 
  species 
  for 
  stndy 
  and 
  illustration. 
  

  

  Mountains 
  about 
  Koveredo, 
  Tyrol 
  :—Cima 
  Posta, 
  Monte 
  Pasnbio, 
  6,000 
  

   to 
  7,000 
  feet, 
  and 
  somewhat 
  lower; 
  Sette 
  Albi. 
  

  

  II. 
  PODISMA 
  COSTAE. 
  

  

  Pe:otettix. 
  costae 
  Takgioxi 
  Tozetti, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Ital., 
  XIII 
  (1881), 
  p. 
  185.— 
  

   Brunner, 
  Prodr. 
  Eiir. 
  Orth. 
  (1882), 
  p. 
  229. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  not 
  seen 
  this 
  species, 
  and 
  introduce 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  table 
  only 
  by 
  aid 
  

   of 
  the 
  characters 
  assigned 
  by 
  Brunner. 
  

   Monte 
  Morrone, 
  Abruzzo, 
  Italy. 
  

  

  12. 
  PODISMA 
  PARNASSICA. 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  VIII, 
  fig. 
  3.) 
  

   Pezoiettix 
  j^arnassicus 
  Brunner!, 
  MS. 
  

   Very 
  dark 
  bronze 
  green, 
  beneath 
  dull 
  testaceous 
  (male),or 
  ferrugineo- 
  

   testaceous, 
  beneath 
  dull 
  tiavous 
  (female), 
  the 
  lower 
  nuirgins 
  of 
  the 
  

   lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  the 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  under 
  surface, 
  the 
  abdomen 
  with 
  a 
  

   slender 
  dorsal 
  testaceous 
  stripe. 
  Antennae 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  

   pronotum 
  together. 
  Frontal 
  costa 
  scarcely 
  depressed 
  at 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  

   fading 
  before 
  the 
  clypeus. 
  Pronotum 
  short, 
  subcylindrical 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   feebly 
  expanding 
  posteriorly 
  (female), 
  pretty 
  uniformly 
  and 
  sparsely 
  

   rugoso-punctate, 
  slightly 
  more 
  tinely 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   zona; 
  prozona 
  transverse, 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  metazona, 
  its 
  

   transverse 
  sulci 
  inconspicuous; 
  posterior 
  margin 
  of 
  pronotum 
  truncate, 
  

   the 
  median 
  carina 
  subobsolete, 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  wanting. 
  Meso- 
  and 
  meta- 
  

   nota, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  and 
  the 
  dorsum 
  of 
  the 
  basal 
  abdominal 
  

   segments, 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  only, 
  punctate. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  blunt 
  conical; 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  quadrate 
  (male) 
  or 
  strongly 
  

   transverse, 
  fully 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  lobes 
  (female), 
  the 
  metasternal 
  

   lobes 
  subattingent 
  (male) 
  or 
  distant, 
  the 
  interspace 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  

   frontal 
  costa 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  wanting. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  olivaceo-testa- 
  

   ceous, 
  rufous 
  beneath 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  lutescent 
  (male) 
  or 
  pale 
  

   green 
  (female), 
  the 
  spines 
  black-tipped, 
  eight 
  to 
  nine 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  

   outer 
  series. 
  Sides 
  of 
  first 
  abdominal 
  segment 
  with 
  no 
  tympanum; 
  

   extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  not 
  clavate 
  nor 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraaual 
  

   plate 
  triangular 
  with 
  a 
  median 
  sulcus 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  and 
  a 
  broad 
  

   depression 
  apically 
  ; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  rather 
  distant, 
  hardly 
  

   elongate, 
  rounded 
  lobes 
  no 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  last 
  dorsal 
  segment; 
  cerci 
  

   Proc. 
  N. 
  M. 
  vol. 
  XX 
  8 
  

  

  