N0.1124. RKlISroy OF THE MKLAS^OPLI—SCriWEIt. KH 



2. PODISMA VARIEGATA, new species. 

 (Plate VII. li^. 4.) 



Pezotitfix glaciaVta C'omstock !, lutr. Ent., 18^, p. 107. 



Pallid testaceous with an olivaceous tinge, variegated witli djiik glis- 

 tening fuscous or chocolate brown in which also an olivaceous tinge 

 may be detected, pilose. Head pallid olivaceo-testaceous, blotched 

 with olivaceo-fuscous on the genae, and heavily infuscatcd above, with 

 a broad postocular olivaceo fuscous band; vertex somewhat tumid, 

 slightly elevated above the pronotuni, the interspace between the eyes 

 a little broader than (male) or twice as broad as (female) the tirst anten- 

 nal Joint; fastigium considerably declivent, straight, and not arcuate, 

 in the male lying below, iu the female at, the upper level of the eyes 

 so as not to be wholly seen on a side view, a little sulcate, abruptly 

 and angularly expanded a little anteriorly; frontal costa failing to 

 reach the clypeus, subequal, but faintly contracted at the ocellus and 

 as faintly expanding betwee i the antennae, as broad as (nuile) or slightly 

 narrower than (female) the interspace between the eyes, sulcate except- 

 ing above, si)arsely punctate above; eyes rather small, very prominent 

 in the male, but little longer than broad, about as long as (male) or a 

 little shorter than (female) the intraocular portion of the genae; antennae 

 lighter or darker olivaceo-fuscous, distinctly longer in the male than 

 tlie hind femora. Tronotum subequal, faintly subselliform in the male, 

 expanding feebly iiosteriorly in the female, the disk dull bronze oliva- 

 ceous in the female, pallid testaceous with a mediodorsal, irregular but 

 not broad, dark chocolate fuscous stripe and dark transverse sulci in 

 the male, the literal lobes glistening pale testaceous below, above with a 

 very broad, percurrent, glistening brownish fuscous band, in the female 

 (leeplv tinged with olivaceous; disk strongly convex, passing insen- 

 sibly into the vertical lateral lobes; median carina slight, percurrent, 

 ecjual: front and hind margins truncate, the latter feebly emarginate 

 niesially; prozona quadrate in both sexes, sparsely, feebly, and rather 

 coarsely punctate (particularly in the male and posteriorly), twice 

 (male) or almost twice (female) as long as the obscurely, iinely, and not 

 densely punctate metazona. Prosternal spine short, blunt, conical; 

 interspace between mesosternal lobes a little transverse and nearly or 

 quite as broaf' as the lobes (male) or twice as broad as long, fully as 

 broad as the lobes (female), the metasternal lobes approximate (male) 

 or distant, but much less so than the mesosternal (female). Teg- 

 mina wanting. Fore and middle femora somewhat tumid in the male 

 and distinctly shorter than in the female, dark olivaceous; hind femora 

 tlavo testaceous, broadly trifasciate with blackish fuscous, besides a 

 blackish geniculation, the under surface pale or dull coral red: hind 

 tibiae bronze green or olive green, the spines black almost from their 

 base, ten, rarely eleven, in number iu the outer series. Abdomen 

 liardly (male) or distinctly (female) compressed, with a distinct median 



