MO. 1124. UKrisinx OF the MEJAyoru—scuhDER. 107 



H. Scudder: T.S.N.M. [No. 727).— Kiley collection) ; Sierra Blanca, Colo- 

 rado, 1-',0<M) to i;t,(KM) feet, Aujj:ust lit); (ieoif^'etowu, Clear Creek 

 Comity, Colorado, 8,5(M> to 0,0(10 feet, .Inly 12-13; North Park, C<.lo- 

 rado (L. IJruner); Poudre kiver, Colorado, June (T.S.N.M. — Kiley ('(d- 

 leetioii); Beaver Brook, .Iettt'r.»;on County, C<dorado, r»,000 feet, July 

 11; Laramie, Albany County. Wyoming (L. Bruner); Wasatili Moun- 

 tains near lieaver, Utah, August 1-4. E. Palmer. 



It lias also been reported from the mountain sides in Clear Creek 

 Canyon. Colorado (Uhler), from Brush Creek, Colorado, 1-I,00<) feet 

 (Cockerell), from (.'oloiado (Stal). and from Montana (Bruner), 



1 formerly compared tliis insect to the European PodiHina alpina var. 

 miintana^ but it should r ither be comi)ared to l*o(Hsma pedestrln on 

 account of its much 8l)ort< r subgenital plate, though in its cerci it is 

 more nearly related to the former; it can not be confounded with either, 

 hut is more nearly related to Podisma pedestris than to any other 

 American type. 



By tlie kindness of Doctor Aurivillius, of Stockholm, I have received 

 one of the type si)ecimens of Stfil's I'czotettix hohemani, and been able 

 to com|>are it with the types of the other nominal species mentioned in 

 the synonymy. 



6. PODISMA ASCENSOR, new species. 



(Plate VII, tig. 8.) 



Pezoteitix dodgei Scudder:, Hull. U. S. Geol. Siirv. Terr., II (1876), p. 261. 

 IJrownish testaceous above, dull testaceous below. Head testaceous, 

 feebly olivaceous, embrowned above; vertex feebly tumid, not elevated 

 above the pronotum, the intersi)ace between the eyes half as broad 

 again (male) or nearly twice as broad (female) as the first antennal joint; 

 fastigium moderately declivent, broadly and very .shallowly sulcate; 

 frontal costa percurreut, 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, 

 esj)ecially 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 metazona; 

 trout border truncate, hind border rotundato obtusangulate; prozona 

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

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

 I'rosternal spine of moderate length, stout, conical, not very blunt; 

 interspace between mesosternal h)bes nearly twice as broad as long, but 



