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earpetammi, Bol., is recorded from Escorial, Navacerrada and La 

 Granja; in this variety the typical sulcus is behind the middle, the 

 metazona strongly rugulose-punctate, the central keel nearly obsolete 

 and the elytra extremely short. 



4. PoDisMA scHMiDTi, Brunner. 



[This is the species described by Brunner as P. mendax in the 

 Frodromus ; Scudder has pointed out that the name P. schnddti, Br., 

 applies to mendax of Fischer and Brunner, while the species called 

 schniidti by Brunner in the Prodromus is really P. fieberi, Scudder ; 

 this latter is an Eastern species.] Distinguished by the bright oily 

 green colour (which turns dull brown on drying), pink elytra, trans- 

 parent hind femora, greenish-blue hind tibife, purplish-red knees and 

 cerci, and the peculiar form of the ovipositor, of which the valves are 

 quite straight, the upper pair sulcate above ; it is of more slender build 

 than most of its congeners. Length of body 11 mm. -16mm. $ , 18mm.- 

 25mm. ? ; of pronotum, B-5mm.-4mm. J , 4mm.-5-5mm. 2 ; of elytra 

 2'2mm.-3-2mm^ , 3mm.-3-5mm. ? . 



Common in the southern Alps — Provence {teste Dubrony, but 

 not included by Finot nor Azam) ; Tessin ; Caux near Montreux ; 

 Vienna, in Italy at Voltaggio, in the Apennines. Locally distributed. 



5. PoDisMA BALDENsis, Krauss. 



Allied to P. pedemontanuni and P. salawa7idrum; differs from the first 

 by the presence of tympanum and longer cerci of the ^ ; from the second 

 by the smaller size, reddish legs, almost unforked frons, the parallel 

 row of small teeth on the last abdominal segment of the<y , the pointed 

 supraanal plate of thee? , and chiefly by the broad and blunt subgeiiital 

 plate of J . Length of body, 14mm. -15mm. 3' , 19mm. -22mm. 5 ; of 

 pronotum, 3-2mm.-4mm. ^ , 4*2mm.-4-5mm. J . 



Above San Giacomo (5000 ft.); Monte Baldo and Rovereto in the 

 south Tirol. 



6. PoDisMA SALAMANDRUM, Fischer. 



Distinguished by the entire absence of elytra, presence of tympanum 

 on 1st abdominal segment, smooth pronotum, and sharp subgenital 

 plate of ^ . Length of body, 14-5mm.-18mm. S , 20mm. -24mm. $ ; 

 of pronotum, 3-2mm.-3-8mm. ^ , 4-2mm.-4-5mm. ? . 



A rare species occurring in a few localities in the Karst districts of 

 southern Austria. The most western record is Monte Baldo in the 

 Tirol. 



7. PoDisMA PYRENffiUM, Fischer. 



Length of body, 15mm. ^ , 19mm. 2 ; of pronotum, 4mm. S , 

 4"5mm. $ ; of posterior femora, 9mm. 3 , 11mm. 2 . 



A native of the grassy uplands of the Pyrenees, Pic du Midi de 

 Bigorre, Pic du Midi, Bagneres de Bigorre, Bareges, Gavarnie, Canigou. 

 On the Spanish side at Panticosa, and at Nuria in Catalonia. 



8. PoDisMA cosT^, Targioni-Tozzetti. 



No tympanum, no elytra, dark reddish, with white marks. Leuyth 

 of body, 18mm. -24mm. 2 ; of pronotum, 3-5mm.-4-8mm. 2 ; of posterior 

 femora, 11mm. 2 • 



A little known species taken at Monte Morrone in Abruzzi. The 

 male is not known. 



