  We report the detection of short period oscillations in the hot subdwarf B
(sdB) star PG 1613+426 from time-series photometry carried out with the 91-cm
Cassegrain telescope of the Catania Astrophysical Observatory. This star, which
is brighter than the average of the presently known sdB pulsators, with B =
14.14 mag, has $T_{\rm eff}=34 400 {\rm K}$ and $\log g = 5.97$, its position
is near the hot end of the sdB instability strip, and it is a pulsator with a
well observed peak in the power spectrum at $144.18\pm 0.06 \rm s$. This star
seems to be well suited for high precision measurements, which could detect a
possible multi-mode pulsation behaviour
