wo. 1124. REnaios Of niK Mi:i.ASitri.i-in:i ubEii. 113 



10. PODISMA COBKLLII. 



(riiile VIM. 11k.-'.) 



Przoletiir cohrllii KllArSH, V«rh. Zro.l.-IW.t. «i«'H. WImi. XXXIII n>«3). pp. 222, 



•2SX \\n. 2. 

 Viinielt'u Kolmnaniint (niiiMii, Ort. (Jrn. Trent. (l><s:j).i> 1.'). 



Iloriiitli l>niiiii(M' Vdii \V:itt<Mi\vyl li:m kiiMlly IomiumI ino a pairot'thJH 

 liftU' Uiiowii s|n»ri«'s (or study and illustration. 



Moil II tains about L'ovoredo.Tyrol:— Ciiiia I'osta. Montr Pasnl)io,r»,Ol>(> 

 to 7,<MM) tiH't, and somewhat lower; Sette AlWi. 



II. PODISMA COSTAE. 



Pezotettii contne Tahoiom To/ftii. Hull. Soc. Knt. Ital.. XIII (IHXl ), p. \Kk— 

 ItKiNNKii, FnMlr. Kiir. < )rth. ( IK82). p. 221>. 



I liavc not seen tliis species, and introduce it in the tul»le only by aid 

 of the <'haracters jissijjned by Jlrunner. 

 Monte Morrone, Abruz/o, Italy. 



xa. PODISMA PARNASSICA. new species. 

 (Plate VIII, ri>,'.3.) 

 Pezotetdx parnasHicuH li\a:ssi:n\, MS. 



Very dark bronze ^reen, beneath dull testaceous (male), or fernifrineo- 

 testaceons, beneath dull tiavous (female), the lower marj^^ins of the 

 liiteral lobes of the cidor of the under surface, the abdomen with a 

 slender dorsal testaceou:^ stripe. Antennae as lonj? as the head and 

 ]»roiiotum together. Frontal costa scarcely depressed at the o<*.ellus, 

 f:i(iing bel'ore the ilypeus. I'ronotnm short, subcylindri<*al (male) or 

 feebly expandin;,^ ])osteriorly (female), pretty nniforndy and sparsely 

 Migoso punctate, slightly more finely on the metazona than on the i)ro- 

 zona; i)roz()na transverse, nearly twice as long as the metazona, its 

 transverse sulci inconspicuous; jxisterior margin of i)r(motum truncate, 

 tlie median carina snbob.solete, lateral carinae wanting. Meso- an<l meta- 

 iiota, especially in the male, an<l the dorsum of the basal abtlominal 

 segments, in the nile only, punctate. Prosternal spiiu' blunt conical; 

 interspace between mesosternal lobes (piadrate (male) or strongly 

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

 lobes snbattingejit (male) or distant, the inters])a<'e broader than the 

 tiontal costa (female). Tegmina wanting. Hind femora olivaceo-testa- 

 ceons, rufous beneath in the female; hind tibiae lutescent (male) or i)ale 

 ureen (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 

 t'longate, rounded lobes no longer than the last dorsal segment j cerci 

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