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parts of Europe and Asia, which border on the eastern Mediterranean. 

 Four, or possibly five, species are known. 



15. Morphacris sulcata (Thunberg). 



Gryllns sulcaliis Thunberg, Mem. Acad., Petersb., V, p. 234 (1815), IX, pp. 396, 



410 (1824). 

 Cosmorhyssa sulcata Stal, Recens, Orth., I, p. 122 (1873). 

 Morphacris sulcata Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., Ill, p. 219 (1910). 



One female, Batanga (F. H. Hope), another of the same sex and a 

 male, from Lolodorf (A. I. Good). C. M. Ace. Nos. 5293 and 5264. 



Genus QiDiPODA Serville. 



CEdipoda Serville Ann., Sci. Nat., XXII, p. 287 (1831); Ins. Orth., p. 718 (1839)- 

 For further synonymy see Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., Ill, p. 238 (1910). 



16. CEdipoda caerulescens (Linnaeus). 



Gryllns Locusta ccerulescens Linneus, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10), I, p. 432 (1758). For a 

 rather full synonymy of this species see Kirby, /. c, pp. 240-241. 



There are two specimens, male and female, at hand. They were 

 collected by Dr. W. J. Holland at Tangier, Morocco, in October, 191 1. 

 C. M. Ace. No. 4514. 



Family PYRGOMORPHID.F:. 



The family Pyrgomorphidcc is one of the principal groups of x^frican 

 locusts and contains many very interesting forms. In fact, Kirby 

 in his Synonymic Catalogue of the Orthoptera of the World, lists 

 thirty-six distinct genera, members of which occur on the African 

 continent and the immediately adjacent islands. Several of these 

 locusts are mong the most gaudily colored forms known. Others are 

 recognized as destructive to agriculture, while still others are very 

 bizarre in their appearance. 



Genus Dictyophorus Thunberg. 



Dictyophorus Thunberg, Mem. Acad. Petersb., V, pp. 217, 258 (1815); Kirby, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1902, p. 88. 

 Petasia Serville (nee Stephens), Ann. Sci. Nat., XXII, p. 278 (1831); Ib., Ins. 



Orth., p. 628 (1839); Stal, Recens. Orth., I, pp. 12, 20 (1873), etc. 

 Topesia Bolivar, Bol. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., IV, p. 309 (1904); Ib., Gen. Ins., 



Fasc. 90, Orth. Acrid. Pyrg., p. 12 (1909). 



