ART. 3 ORTHOPTEROID INSECTS FROM JAVA CAUDEI>L 27 



TAUCHIRA ABBREVIATA Serville 



Acridium abbreviata Serville, Ins. Orth., 1839, p. 678. 



One male and a female from Buitenzorg and four females from 

 Tjibodas, Mount Gede. 



The blue posterior tibiae of this species will serve to distinguish it 

 from the closely allied T. lucida of Krauss, which was described from 

 Samarang and Tjibodas but is not represented in the present collec- 

 tion. 



VALANGA NIGRICORNIS. var. MELANOCORNIS Serville 



Acridium melanocorne Serville, Ins. Orth., 1839, p. 659, — Uvarov, Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 12, 1923, p. 352, figs. 



Six males, thirteen females, and one male nymph from Buitenzorg. 



This series, while rather miiform in size, varies greatly in color; one 

 extreme is uniformly wood-brown and the other with a conspicuous 

 yellowish or yellow-green stripe extending from the fastigium of the 

 vertex along the whole length of the pronotal disk and along the anal 

 area of the tegmina almost to the tip. Various intergrades between 

 these extremes occurs, showing rather conclusively that but a single 

 species is involved. The posterior tibiae vary from pale reddish to 

 yellow. 



A single specimen of typical nigricornis Burmeister is in the col- 

 lection, a male taken at Singapore. 



, CHONDRACRIS ROSEA, var. BRUNNERI Uvarov 



Chondracris rosea, var. brunneri Uvarov, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 14, 1924, 

 p. 108. 



One male, six females, and a female nymph from Buitenzorg. These 

 are a little larger than the types described by Uvarov. 



PATANGA SUCCINCTA Johansson 



Gryllus (Locusta) succincta Johansson, Amoen. Acad., vol. 6, 1763, p. 398. — 

 Uvarov, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, 1923, p. 143. 



One male and seven females, Depok; one male, Soekaboemi; one 

 female, Buitenzorg. 



All these specimens have red-tinted underwings except the male 

 from Soekaboemi, which has them transparent to the base; this speci- 

 men is also much less variegated in color than the others, having the 

 costal streak of the tegmina, the dorsal stripe of the head, pronotum, 

 and anal area of tegmina and the markings on the lateral lobes of the 

 pronotum very obscure; it resembles very much ones examined from 

 Banks Island and localities near Bombay. 



Aside from coloration there is decided structural variation evident 

 in material referred to this species, as the shape of the prosternal 

 spine, the cerci of the male, the supra-anal plate of the same sex, etc. 



