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

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

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

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

 zona, ferrugineo-testaceous. Hind femora fusco-olivaceous, sanguin- 

 eous beneath ; hind tibiae feebly valgate, green, the spines black-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 hardly 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.; pronotum, male, 5.5 mm., female, 6.5 mm.; tegmina, male, 3 mm., 

 female, 4 mm. ; hind femora, male, 11 mm., female, 14 mm. 



One male, 1 female. Japan (U.S.N.M. [No. 729], through L. Bruner). 



17. PODISMA SCHMIDTII. 



(Plate VIII, fig. 9.) 



Podisma sckmidtii FIEBER, Lotos, III (June, 1853), pp. 119-120. 

 Pezotettix mendax FISCHER, Orth. Eur. (Nov., 1853), pp. 371-372, pi. xv, figs. 

 23,23 ab. BRUNNER, Prodr. Eur. Orth. (1882), pp. 227-228. 



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

 from 1854 (Synopsis), and antedates by several months 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 November. 



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 schmidtii URUNNKR, Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, XI (1861), p. 306, pi. 

 xvi, figs. 23 A B; Prodr. Eur. Orth. (1882), p. 225. 



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

 ( 1.S5:$); but he nevertheless retains Fieber's name for it, because it was 

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



