50.1124. ME VISION OF THE MELAXOPLI-SCIDDEB. 115 



almost as broad as tlio lobes (female), tbe inner mar^jins of tlie lobes 

 stroiijily rouuded, the metasteriial lobes subattingent (male) or distant 

 by nearly the breadtli of the frontal eosta (female). Tejjmina hiteral, 

 ellii)tical, more than twiee as lonjx as broad, no longer than the pro- 

 zona, ferrugineo testaeeous. Hind femora fiisco olivaceous, sangiiin- 

 i'oiis beneata; hind tibiae feebly vallate, green, tlie spines l)hi(*iv tipped, 

 nine to ten in number in the outer seiies. Abdomen lighter in the 

 male than in the female, in the former with a pair of subdorsal, longi- 

 tudinal, oval, basal, tlavous spots on segments three to eight, sides of 

 tiist segment with a distinct tymi)aiium, the extremity hardly elavate 

 or recurved in the male, the supraanal plate blunt triangular, tectate, 

 with broad, regularly narrowing, percurrent median sulcus; furcula 

 ' inting, the lateral halves of the last dorsal segment rather distant: 

 crci moderately slender, rather regularly tapering, blunt tipi>ed, 

 abruptly bent inward and u{)ward beyond thi- middle; subgenital plate 

 e<iually broad and long, conical, ending in a blunt tubercle j)rolonged 

 beyond the apical margin. Valves of ovipositor rather long, nearly 

 straight, the ui)per pair sinuate above, with serratulate margins. 



Length of body, male, 24 mm., female, 31.5 wv ; ante'inae, male, 

 8 mm.; pronotum, male, 5.5 mm., female, 0.5 mm.; tegmina, nude, 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, Bruuer). 



17. PODISMA SCHMIDTII. 



(Plnte VIII, lig. !>.) 



Podisma achmidiii Fiereh, l^otos. Ill (June, 1853), pp. 119-120. 

 Vezotdt'u viendax Kischek, Orth. Eur. (Nov., isr>;>), pp. 371-372, pi. xv, figs. 

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



The iniblication of Fieber's species dates from 1853 (Lotos) ami not 

 from 1854 (Synopsis), and antedates bv several months the description 

 of Fischer, whose name has been hitherto accepted ; for I'iebers si)e- 

 cies was published in the June number of Lotos, and the preface to 

 Fischer's work is dated November. 



This species occurs, according to Brunuer von Wattenwyl, on hazel 

 stalks and bramble bushes. 



Austrian Alps, especially tbe southern side, from Transylvania west- 

 ward to southern Tyrol and the Swiss canton Ticino; and in the moun- 

 tiiiiious region bordering the upper extremity of the Adriatic, eastward. 



18. PODISMA FIEBERI, new name. 



(Plate VIII, fig. 8.) 



Pezotettix achmidtii Piunxek, Verb. Zool.-IJot. (ies. Wien, XI (1861), p. 3fH>, pi. 

 XVI, fijrs. 23 A B: Prodr. Eur. Orth. (1?<82), p. 225. 



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

 ( !>*>;)); but he nevertheless retains Fieber's name for it, because it was 

 tir.st described by himself under that name, under the supposition that 



