﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDEB. 
  115 
  

  

  almost 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  lobes 
  (female), 
  the 
  inner 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  lobes 
  

   strongly 
  rounded, 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  subattingent 
  (male) 
  or 
  distant 
  

   by 
  nearly 
  tlie 
  breadth 
  of 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  lateral, 
  

   elliptical, 
  more 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  no 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   zoua, 
  ferrugineo-testaceous. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  fusco-olivaceous, 
  sangnin- 
  

   eons 
  beneath 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  feebly 
  valgate, 
  green, 
  the 
  spines 
  blacli;-tipped, 
  

   nine 
  to 
  ten 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Abdomen 
  lighter 
  in 
  the 
  

   male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  in 
  the 
  former 
  with 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  subdorsal, 
  longi- 
  

   tudinal, 
  oval, 
  basal, 
  flavous 
  spots 
  on 
  segments 
  three 
  to 
  eight, 
  sides 
  of 
  

   first 
  segment 
  with 
  a 
  distinct 
  tympanum, 
  the 
  extremity 
  hardlj^ 
  clavate 
  

   or 
  recurved 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  blunt 
  triangular, 
  tectate, 
  

   with 
  broad, 
  regularly 
  narrowing, 
  percurrent 
  median 
  sulcus; 
  furcula 
  

   wanting, 
  the 
  lateral 
  halves 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  dorsal 
  segment 
  rather 
  distant; 
  

   cerci 
  moderately 
  slender, 
  rather 
  regularly 
  tapering, 
  blunt-tipped, 
  

   abruptly 
  bent 
  inward 
  and 
  upward 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  

   equally 
  broad 
  and 
  long, 
  conical, 
  ending 
  in 
  a 
  blunt 
  tubercle 
  prolonged 
  

   beyond 
  the 
  apical 
  margin. 
  Valves 
  of 
  ovipositor 
  rather 
  long, 
  nearly 
  

   straight, 
  the 
  upper 
  pair 
  sinuate 
  above, 
  with 
  serratulate 
  margins. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  24 
  mm., 
  female, 
  31.5 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  

   8 
  mm. 
  ; 
  pronotuni, 
  male, 
  5.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  0.5 
  mm. 
  ; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  3 
  mm., 
  

   female, 
  4 
  mm. 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  male, 
  11 
  mm., 
  female, 
  11 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male, 
  1 
  female. 
  Japan 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  [So. 
  729], 
  through 
  L. 
  Bruner). 
  

  

  17. 
  PODISMA 
  SCHMIDTII. 
  

   (Plate 
  VIII, 
  fig. 
  !).) 
  

  

  Podisma 
  schmidfii 
  Fieber, 
  Lotos, 
  III 
  (June, 
  1853), 
  pp. 
  119-120. 
  

   Pezoieftix 
  mendax 
  Fischer, 
  Ortb. 
  Eur. 
  (Nov., 
  1853), 
  pp. 
  371-372, 
  pi. 
  xv, 
  ligs. 
  

   23,23 
  ab.— 
  BaUNNER, 
  Prodr. 
  Eur. 
  Ortb. 
  (1882), 
  pp. 
  227-228. 
  

  

  The 
  publication 
  of 
  Fieber's 
  species 
  dates 
  from 
  1853 
  (Lotos) 
  and 
  not 
  

   from 
  1854 
  (Synopsis), 
  and 
  antedates 
  by 
  several 
  mouths 
  the 
  description 
  

   of 
  Fischer, 
  whose' 
  name 
  has 
  been 
  hitherto 
  accepted; 
  for 
  Fieber's 
  spe- 
  

   cies 
  was 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  June 
  number 
  of 
  Lotos, 
  and 
  the 
  preface 
  to 
  

   Fischer's 
  work 
  is 
  dated 
  Xovember. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  occurs, 
  according 
  to 
  Brunner 
  von 
  Wattenwyl, 
  on 
  hazel 
  

   stalks 
  and 
  bramble 
  bushes. 
  

  

  Austrian 
  Alps, 
  especially 
  the 
  southern 
  side, 
  from 
  Transylvania 
  west- 
  

   ward 
  to 
  southern 
  Tyrol 
  and 
  the 
  Swiss 
  canton 
  Ticino; 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  moun- 
  

   tainous 
  region 
  bordering 
  the 
  upper 
  extremity 
  of 
  the 
  Adriatic, 
  eastward. 
  

  

  18. 
  PODISMA 
  FIEBERI, 
  new 
  name. 
  

   (Plate 
  VIII, 
  tig. 
  8.) 
  

  

  Pezotettix 
  schTnidtii 
  Brunnkr, 
  Verb. 
  Zool.-Bot. 
  Ges. 
  Wien, 
  XI 
  (1861), 
  p. 
  306, 
  pi. 
  

   XVI, 
  figs. 
  23 
  A 
  B; 
  Prodr. 
  Eur. 
  Ortb. 
  (1882), 
  p. 
  225. 
  

  

  As 
  Brunner 
  points 
  out, 
  this 
  is 
  not 
  the 
  Podisma 
  sclimidtli 
  of 
  Fieber 
  

   (1853); 
  but 
  he 
  nevertheless 
  retains 
  Fieber's 
  name 
  for 
  it, 
  because 
  it 
  was 
  

   first 
  described 
  by 
  himself 
  under 
  that 
  name, 
  under 
  the 
  supposition 
  that 
  

  

  