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it was Fieber's species, and because Fieber's schmidtii and Fischer's 

 mendax are the same. By the ordinary rules of nomenclature, the 

 name schmidtii, having been applied to one species of the genus could 

 not subsequently be applied to another, even if the first were a syno- 

 nym; but it is doubly incorrect here, since schmidtii of Fieber has tbe 

 priority over mendax of Fischer. It is therefore necessary to give the 

 present species a new name. 



This species is found on leafy bushes. 



From Carniola eastward to Servia, southern Hungary, and Transyl- 

 vania. 



19. PODISMA PEDESTRIS. 

 (Plate VIII, fig. 10.) 



Gryllus pcdestris Lixx^us, Syst. Nat., Ed. X (1758), p. 433. 

 Awydium pedestre OLIVIER, Encycl. Meth., VI (1791), p. 232. 

 Podisma pedestris LATRKILLE, Cuv. Regne Anim., V (1829), p. 188. 

 Pezoteitlx pedeslris BURMEISTER, Germ. Zeitsclir. Ent., II (1840), p. 51. 



FISCHER, Orth. Eur. (1854), pp. 369-371, pi. xv, figs. 17. 17% 18, 18a. 



BRUNNER, Prodr. Eur. Orth. (1882), pp. 226-227. 

 Acrydium apterum DEGEER, Mem., Ill (1773), p. 474, pi. xxm, figs. 8, 9. 



In northern Europe, in Finland, southern Sweden, and Holstein; 

 then again farther south in the high alps of Switzerland, at the Wen 

 gern alp and the Ehone glacier, and in the mountains of southern Bava- 

 ria and the Tyrol; farther east it comes down to the hill country and 

 occurs from Carinthia eastward to the Volga. South of the alps it is 

 found in southeastern France, southern Tyrol, and Sardinia. Jt has 

 been incorrectly reported from England. 



20. PODISMA ALPINA. 



(Plate IX, fig. 1.) 



Gryllus alpinns KOLLAR, Beitr. Landesk. Oesterr ., Ill (1833), p. 83. 



Podisma alpina FIEBER, Lotos, III (1853), pp. 119. 



Pezotettix alpina FISCHER, Orth. Eur. (1853), pp. 368-369, pi. xv, figs. 19, 20. 



Pezoteltix alpmus BRUNNER, Prodr. Eur. Orth. (1882), pp. 224-225, pi. vn, fig. 53. 



Acridium pulchellum HERRICH-SCHAEFFER, Nomoncl. I us., II (1840), Orth., 8, 19. 



Podisma frigidum FISCHER, Jahresb. Mann. ver. Natnrk, XV (1849), pp. 38-39. 



Podisma subalpinum FISCHER, ibid., XVI (1850), p. 27. 



Occurs in two forms : alpina, with tegmina separate and lateral, found 

 in the higher mountains; and a larger, collina, with tegmina overlap- 

 ping, half as long as the abdomen. 



P. a. alpina occurs in all the higher mountains of central Europe as 

 far east as the borders of Servia. I found it extremely abundant in 

 the alpine pastures about Yillars sur Bex, Canton de Yaud, Switzer- 

 land. P. a. collina is found from Carniola and the forest of Vienna 

 through southern Hungary to Transylvania. 



