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judging from the shape of the ovipositor, and seems closely allied to 

 P. nii/rosii/Hatic^, Costa. I took several specimens among Aveeds in 

 sheltered hollows on the barren rocky plateau of Bicevica, in the 

 southern part of the range, a day's walk north of Mostar. The other 

 two were taken in beds of nettles further north, close to the valley of 

 Tisavica and the peak of Ortish. This latter mountain reaches an 

 altitude of 1209 metres, and so I woiild estimate the elevation at which 

 these species occurred at about IHOO metres. The region all around the 

 exact spot where I took them is extremely barren and stony, inhabited 

 almost entirely by such mountain-loving insects as (imiipliorcnix 

 sihin'nix, L., and Struolxithnis iin')ti((ti(s, Charp. It was only in the 

 sheltered nooks and hollows that I found any richness of insect life. 

 P. raia and P. prcnjiva both showed a considerable quantity of green 

 when alive, but as I had unfortunately run out of formaline I was 

 obliged to keep them in spirit, which has bleached the colour. It is 

 impossible to remember exactly the proportions of the colouring, but 

 probably all, or the greater part, of that which is now testaceous, is 

 dark green in the living insect. The general appearance of both these 

 species when alive, is very much like that of P. bracJn/jitcra, Linn. 



Platycleis kaia, sp. n. — Statura moclica. Colore testaceo, fusco-variegato. 

 Pronotum supra planum, testaceum, carinula media postice leviter expressa, lobis 

 deflexis testaeeis, fusco-notatis, postice pallido-marginatis. Elytra testacea, 

 segmenta, in <? 8, in ? 7, attingentia, apice acuminata. Pedes omnes testacei, 

 fusco-notati. Segmentura anale <J medio divisum. Cerci c7 testacei, apice 

 infuscati, medio dente decurvo nigro armati. Lamina subgenitalis <? margins 

 postico medio distincte triangulariter emarginata, lobis rotundatis. Ovipositor 

 parum incurvus, acuminatus, testaceus, apice infuscatus. Lamina subgenitalis ? 

 hexagonalis, margine postico leviter triangulariter excisa. <f ? . Long : corporis <? 

 16mm., ? 18mm.; pronoti, s 5mm., ? .5mm.; elytrorum, <? 9-.5mm., ? Dmm.; 

 femorum posticorum, <j 16-.5mm., ? 17mm.; ovipositoris, 9-5mm. Fatria : Tisavica, 

 in montibus Prenj, Herzegovina, July 24th, 1898 (Burr). 



Plati/ch'is raia is very close to P. aaiisfttn-Hana, Frey, from which it 

 may be distinguished by its paler colour, longer and more pointed 

 elytra, and paler femora, varied with black. The subgenital lamina of 

 the male is more deeply emarginate, with rounded lobes, and not straight 

 as in Z'. miissuirana, Frey. In the female the ovipositor is testaceous and 

 not uniform fuscous, and the subgenital lamina is hexagonal and less 

 deeply excised. I took two males, one female, and one female nymph. 



Platycleis tkenjica, sp. n. — P. fitscae vicina. Colore viridi vel fusco- 

 testaceo. Pronotum supra planum vel subconcavum, carinula media postice 

 expressa, lobis deflexis fuscis, subtus et postice pallido-marginatis. Elytra pallida, 

 brevia, segmentum -5, attingentia, valde obtusa. Abdomen viride vel testaceum, 

 fusco-variegatum. Femora omnia testacea, postica pagina externa linea angusta 

 nigra ornata. Segmentum anale c? minus excavatum, margine postico medio 

 tuberculis 2 instructo. Cerci c? validi, laminam subgenitalem vixsupcrantes, medio 

 dente recto valido armati. Ovipositor sensim acuminatus, incurvus, fuscus, pronoto 

 plus duplo longior. Lamina subgenitalis ¥ obtusa, triangulariter obtuse emarginata, 

 lobis obtusis, medio cariivxta. Lamina subgenitalis <? margine integro. i ? . Long : 

 corporis, ^ l()-2-17mni., ? 14-17nnn. ; pronoti, t? 4-.'5mm., ? 4-.'i-;)mm. ; elytro- 

 rum, ^ .5-.5nim., ? 4nHi). ; i'emorum posticorum, d liMij-^mm., ? 14iuni. ; 

 ovipositoris, 11mm. I'atiia. — Tisavica, in montibus Prenj, Herzegovina, July2Utli, 

 1898jBurr). 



Of this species I took three males and five females. It was 

 numerous in a bed of nettles, exactly on the edge of the Tisavica 

 valley, quite close to the peak of Ortish, about two miles from the bed 

 where I took /'. raia. It differs from P. fiiura, Br., in the less strongly 

 marked carinula on the posterior part of the pronotum, by the sido 



