124 Mr. B. P. Uvarov's Notes on 



I am not qiiite sure whether this species is not identical 

 with S. sanguiniferus, Rehn, both having been described 

 from Somaliland. 



7. Sphodromerus pantherinus Krauss. 



1902. Sphodromerus pantherinus Krauss, Anz, Akad. Wiss. 



Wien, no. vii, p. 3. 

 1907. Sph\odromerus'\ pantherinus Krauss, Denkschr. Mat.- 



Nat. Kl. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixxi, p. 13 (of separate 



copy), no. 19, pi. i, fig. 8. 



This species, described from Makalla, S. Arabia, is 

 omitted in Kirby's Catalogue. 



Genus Kripa Kirby. 



1914. Kripa Kirby, Fauna Brit. India, Acrid., pp. 195, 

 257. 



This genus, as yet very insufficiently known, seems to 

 be most closely related to Sphodronicrus, the principal 

 difference between these two genera being in the grade of 

 development of the lateral pronotal carinae, v/hich in 

 Kripa are well indicated, though punctured and irregular, 

 while in Sphodromerus they are not all or but scarcely 

 perceptible, and the pronotum is, therefore, rounded. 

 Some other distinctive features may be, also, looked for 

 in the male external genitaha, but unfortunately, the male 

 of the type species of Kripa (that is, K. undidata Kirby) 

 is unknown, and, on the other hand, I have no males of 

 any Sphodromerus before me. In its habitus Kripa is 

 very like Calliplamus, owing to the develoj)ed pronotal 

 keels and to the hind femora less dilated than in Spho- 

 dromerus. It differs from CaJIiptamus, however, by the 

 irregular pronotal keels and also (if I am correct in placing 

 C. coelesyriensis in Kripa) by the structure of the male 

 cerci, which in Calliptamus are armed with two subapical 

 teeth, while in Kripa by one only, as is the case also with 

 Caloptenopsis and Brachyxenia. 



I refer to the genus Kripa, which seems to be peculiar 

 to the deserts of S.W. Asia, besides the genotype, also 

 Caloptenus coelesyriensis, Gig.-Tos; it is possible that 

 some of Walker's species described from Sinai and Arabia, 

 and the types of which are lost, belongs also here; Cal- 



