DESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR NEW ORTHOPTERA FROM MACEDONIA. 159 



<T (paratype). Hind margin of the pronotum slightly more raised than in the 

 female. Elytra extending slightly beyond the hind margin of the metanotum ; 

 chirping apparatus developed ; the raised part and the horizontal margins 

 coriaceous. Supra-anal plate small, lanceolate. Cerci large, compressed dorso- 

 ventrally,- with acute incurved apical tooth. Subgenital plate with a feeble median 

 carina and an angulato-rotundate apical emargination. 



The type is from the Hortiak Plateau, near Salonika, 15-18 viii. 

 1918 ; several paratypes of both sexes are from Lembet. 



The species is very distinct from any other species of the 

 genus Saga, being somewhat like Saga paella, Wern., but easily dis- 

 tinguished from that species by the length of the ovipositor which in 

 8. puelia is only about half as long again as the pronotum. 



4. Gampsocleis abbreviata subsp.n. ebneri. 



The collection includes a very long series of the insect which agrees 

 well with Brunner v. Wattenwyl's description of G. abbreviata 

 as well as with the female of that species in the British Museum, 

 identified by Brunner himself, but differing in the size and coloration. 

 The named author himself mentioned (Prodromus Europ. Orth., p. 319) 

 that the Macedonian representatives of G. abbreviata are smaller than 

 the typical ones from Dalmatia. Prof. B. Ebner, of Vienna, kindly 

 informed me that he also has this small Macedonian form of G. 

 abbreviata which he compared with the Brunner's types and could not 

 find any morphological differences. I believe, therefore, that Mace- 

 donian specimens represent a southern geographical race of G. 

 abbreriata ; my opinion has been also endorsed by Prof. B. Ebner and 

 I have much pleasure in naming the insect after this eminent Orthop- 

 terist, who has done so much for the study of the Balkan fauna. 

 The diagnosis of the new subspecies is as follows : 



Size distinctly smaller than in the typical abbreviata (from Dalmatia) ; elytra 

 relatively shorter and not exceeding the pronotum in length. G-eneral coloration 

 light-buff with grey and black design, without any greenish shade. Ovipositor 

 slightly more decurved than in the typical form. 



The dimensions of both sub-species are, as follows : 



Sbsp. ebneri. Sbsp. abbreviata. 



