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10. PODISMA COBELLII. 

 (Plate VIII, fig. 2.) 



Pezotettix colellii KRAUSS, Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, XXXIII (1883), pp. 222, 



223, fig. 2. 

 Pezotettix salamandra COBULLI, Ort. Gen. Trent. (1883), p ; 15. 



Hofrath Brunuer von Wattenwyl has kindly loaned me a pair of this 

 little known species for study and illustration. 



Mountains about Eoveredo, Tyrol : Ciraa Posta, Monte Pasnbio, 6,000 

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



ii. PODISMA COSTAE. 



Pezotettix costae TARGIONI TOZETTI, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., XIII (1881), p. 185. 

 BRUNNER, Prodr. Ear. Orth. (1882), p. 229. 



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

 of the characters assigned by Bruimer. 

 Monte Morrone, Abruzzo, Italy. 



12. PODISMA PARNASSICA, new species. 



(Plate VIII, fig. 3.) 

 Pezotettix parnassicus BRUNNER!, MS. 



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

 testaceous, beneath dull flavous (female), the lower margins 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 finely on the metazona than on the pro- 

 zona; prozona transverse, nearly twice as long as the metazoua, 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 rnesosternal lobes quadrate (male) or strongly 

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

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

 frontal costa (female). Tegmiua 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 supraanal 

 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 

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