so i!24. REVISION OF TIIH MELAynVLI—SVLUDKR. 117 



21. PODISMA FRIGIDA. 



(I'latc IX, lij;. 2.) 



Gri/UitB/riyidnn Houk.max, Ovei.s. K.Sv. \'t't.-Ak:ul. Kuril. (lH4tJ), \kHO. 

 Pudlsma jYujUlum vox HoKCK, Skaud. liutv. Iiis. Nat. Hist. (1H18), i»p. 'J0-y2, pi. 



HI, n«.2. 

 PezoMtix frifiida I'lstHEH, Orth. Eur. (1«53), pp. 3r)6-368, pi. XV, fi^.l'l. 

 rtzolettix { Milanoplns) friyidiiH Stai., Hec. Ortb., I (1873), p. 79. 

 I'ezotvtlix friiiUluH Mui xxEit, I'rodr. Kur, Ortb. (1882), pp. 223-2'_'i. 

 I'tzoMth- alpkola Fisciikk, Stttt. Ent. Zt'it , -XIII (1?<52), p. 21. 



Occurs ill Lapland and Norway; and aj^aiii in the liigli alps of 

 Switzerland and the Tyrol. 



22. PODISMA (EUPODISMA) PRIMNOA. 



(Plate IX, fig. 3.) 



Podisma primnoa Fischer de Wai.dhkim, Ortb. Kuss. (1X4()), p. 21S. 

 Priinnoa riridit MoTSClilLsKY, M8., ibid. 



Oil account of the extraordinary development of the subgenital i>hite 

 of the male of this largest of Podisuiae, 1 have proposed for it the sub- 

 generic name of Kupodisma. 



Fi.scherde VValdheim describes it from Verkhni-Udinsk,Transbaicalia, 

 Siberia. S})ecimens in luy collection were collected by Parschine at 

 the same place in June, at Samonott'sk in June, at Khabarowki and 

 Ts«)<erhjava on the Amur in May and August, and in the Desert of 

 K' mskaya in Transbaicalia. 



22. PARATYLOTROPIDIA. 

 (Hcxfjn, bfsidf; Tylotropidia, a jieiius of Eupreiiocuemes.) 

 Paratiilotropidia Bruxxkk. Kev. Syst. Ortb. (1893), p. 147. 



Body moderately stout, somewhat compressed, without noticeable 

 pilosity, tlie excessively brief and tine hairs being exceedingly scattered. 

 Head large by being protuberant, not broader than the pronotuin, the 

 f;u:e moderately obi i(jue and the genae feebly tumescent; vertex broadly 

 arched, not elevated above the pronotum ; fastigium very broad, 

 Tumid, feebly declivent, anteriorly rounded; eyes rather long oval, 

 i'ully half as long again as broad, especially in the female, anteriorly 

 subtruncate, separated above by an exceptionally wide interval, almost 

 or quite twice as wide as the rather broad frontal costa; antennae slen- 

 der, about as long (in the female at least) as the head and pronotum 

 together. Pronotum long, compressed, subequal, narrowed above 

 anteriorly, the disk nearly plane but the prozona slightly tumid, with 

 pei current and equal median carina, distinct, percurrent, equal and 

 feebly arcuate lateral carinae, the transverse sulci feebly incised, the 

 bind nuirgin produced, but very obtusanguhite, the metazona tiaring 

 only in the female and then almost imperceptibly. Prosternal si)iue 



