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H. Scudder ; U.S.N.M. [No. 727]. Riley 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 River, Colorado, June (U,S.N.M. Riley col- 

 lection); Beaver Brook, Jefferson County, Colorado, 0,000 feet, July 

 11; Larainie, Albany County, Wyoming (L. Bruner); Wasateh 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 (Stal), and from Montana (Bruner). 



I formerly compared this insect to the European Podisma alplna var. 

 montana, but it should rather be compared 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 StaPs Pezotettix bohetnani, 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. Sun-, 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 antenna! 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 more or less broken and irregular piceous postocular 

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

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

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

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

 front border truncate, hind border rotundato obtusangulate; prozona 

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

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

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

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



