﻿REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDEE. 
  HJ 
  

  

  21. 
  PODISMA 
  FRIGIDA. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  IX, 
  lig. 
  2.) 
  

  

  GrifUus 
  frifjidtts 
  Boiieman, 
  Overs. 
  K. 
  Sv. 
  Yet.-AkacL 
  Forb. 
  (1846), 
  i). 
  80. 
  

   Podisma 
  frhjidiim 
  VON 
  BoRCK, 
  Skantl. 
  Riitv. 
  lus. 
  Nat. 
  HLst. 
  (1848), 
  pp. 
  90-92, 
  pi. 
  

  

  Ill, 
  fig. 
  2. 
  

   Fezotetiix 
  frUjida 
  FisciiEi:, 
  Oith. 
  Eur. 
  (1853), 
  pp. 
  366-368, 
  pi. 
  xv, 
  fig. 
  21. 
  

   Pezotettix 
  {Melanoplus) 
  fr'ujidus 
  St.Il, 
  Eec. 
  Orth., 
  I 
  (1873), 
  p. 
  79. 
  

   PezoteUix 
  frUjidus 
  Bkunner, 
  Prodr. 
  Eur. 
  Orth. 
  (1882), 
  pp. 
  223-221. 
  

   Pezotettix 
  alpicola 
  Fischer, 
  Stett. 
  Ent. 
  Zeit 
  , 
  XIII 
  (1852), 
  p. 
  21. 
  

  

  Occurs 
  iu 
  Lapland 
  and 
  Norway; 
  and 
  again 
  in 
  the 
  high 
  alps 
  of 
  

   Switzerland 
  and 
  the 
  Tyrol. 
  

  

  22. 
  PODISMA 
  (EUPODISMA) 
  PRIMNOA. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  IX, 
  fig. 
  3.) 
  

  

  Podisma 
  primnoa 
  Fischer 
  de 
  Waldiieim, 
  Orth. 
  Russ. 
  (1816), 
  p. 
  248. 
  

   Primnoa 
  viridis 
  Motschulsky, 
  MS., 
  ibid. 
  

  

  : 
  On 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  extraordinary 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  

   of 
  the 
  male 
  of 
  tliis 
  largest 
  of 
  Podismae, 
  I 
  have 
  proposed 
  for 
  it 
  the 
  sub- 
  

   generic 
  name 
  of 
  Eupodisma. 
  

  

  Fischer 
  deWaldheim 
  describes 
  it 
  from 
  Verkhni-Udinsk,Transbaicalia, 
  

   Siberia. 
  Specimens 
  in 
  my 
  collection 
  were 
  collected 
  by 
  I'arschine 
  at 
  

   the 
  same 
  place 
  in 
  June, 
  at 
  Samonofifsk 
  in 
  June, 
  at 
  KhabaroM'ki 
  aud 
  

   Tscherhjava 
  on 
  the 
  Amur 
  iu 
  May 
  and 
  August, 
  and 
  iu 
  the 
  Desert 
  of 
  

   Khorinskaya 
  in 
  Transbaicalia. 
  

  

  22. 
  PARATYLOTROPIDIA. 
  

  

  (Ilapct, 
  beside; 
  Tylotropidia, 
  a 
  genus 
  of 
  Euprepocuemes.) 
  

  

  Parattjlotropidia 
  Brunner, 
  Rev. 
  Syst. 
  Orth. 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  117. 
  

  

  Body 
  moderately 
  stout, 
  somewhat 
  compressed, 
  without 
  noticeable 
  

   IDilosity, 
  the 
  excessively 
  brief 
  and 
  flue 
  hairs 
  being- 
  exceedingly 
  scattered. 
  

   Head 
  large 
  by 
  being 
  protuberant, 
  not 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  

   face 
  moderately 
  oblique 
  and 
  the 
  geuae 
  feebly 
  tumescent 
  ; 
  vertex 
  broadly 
  

   arched, 
  not 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  prouotum 
  ; 
  fastigium 
  very 
  broad, 
  

   tumid, 
  feebly 
  declivent, 
  anteriorly 
  rounded; 
  eyes 
  rather 
  loug 
  oval, 
  

   fully 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  anteriorly 
  

   subtruncate, 
  separated 
  above 
  by 
  an 
  exceptionally 
  wide 
  interval, 
  almost 
  

   or 
  quite 
  twice 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  rather 
  broad 
  frontal 
  costa; 
  antennae 
  slen- 
  

   der, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  (in 
  the 
  female 
  at 
  least) 
  as 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  pronotum 
  

   together. 
  Pronotum 
  long, 
  compressed, 
  subequal, 
  narrowed 
  above 
  

   anteriorly, 
  the 
  disk 
  nearly 
  plane 
  but 
  the 
  prozona 
  slightly 
  tumid, 
  with 
  

   percurrent 
  and 
  equal 
  median 
  carina, 
  distinct, 
  percurrent, 
  equal 
  and 
  

   feebly 
  arcuate 
  lateral 
  carinae, 
  the 
  transverse 
  sulci 
  feebly 
  incised, 
  the 
  

   hind 
  margin 
  produced, 
  but 
  very 
  obtusangulate, 
  the 
  metazona 
  flaring 
  

   only 
  iu 
  the 
  female 
  and 
  then 
  almost 
  imperceptibly. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  

  

  