the Orthoptera in the British Museum. 125 



li'ptamns bimacukdus, Kraiiss (Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 1902, no. 7, p. 4) from Sokotra is also likely to be a Krijya. 



1. Kripa undulata Kirby. 



1914. Kripa undulata Kirby, Pauna Brit. India, Acrid., 

 p. 257, no. 316, fig. 137. 



British Museum specimen : Campbellpur, Punjab, 1 ? 

 {Kirby' s type). 



2. Kripa coelesyriensis (Gig.-Tos.). 

 (Plate I, fig. 2.) 



1893. Calopteyius coelesyriensis Giglio-Tos, Boll. Mus. 



Torino, viii (164), p. 10, no. 51, fig. 4. 

 1902. C[aiopfenus] coelesiriensis M. Fernandez, Anal. Soc. 



Esp. Hist. Nat., xxx, p. 296. 

 1902. C[allip(amus]'Coelosyriensis Jacobson and Bianclii, 



Orth. Pseudon. Russ. Empire, pp. 205, 317. 

 1910. S[phodromerus] coelesyriensis Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., 



iii, p. 549, no. 3. 

 1914. CcUliptamus italicus L. ab. carbonaria, Uvarov, Rev. 



Russe d'Entom, xiv, p. 226. 

 1921. Sj^hodromerus coelosyriensis Uvarov, Journ. Bombay 

 , Nat. Hist. Soc, xxviii (in print). 



Both my description of carbonaria and the original one of 

 coelesyriensis are based upon very dark, almost black 

 coloured specimens, which is, however, not a specific 

 character, since I had the opportunity of studying long 

 series of specimens from Ordubad, Transcaucasia (in the 

 Caucasian Museum, Tiflis), as well as of making observa- 

 tions on living insects at the same locahty. The general 

 coloration of insect varies from pitch-black to ochraceous, 

 and the specimens of the latter coloration are very much 

 like K. mididata. I should even not hesitate to regard 

 K. undulata as conspecific with K. coelesyriensis, but the 

 material on both species now before me is too scanty to 

 draw a definite conclusion from it, and I should not like 

 to rely on memory. The only character separating 

 ochraceous coloured specimens of K. coelesyriensis from 

 K. undidata is, as far as I can recollect, the coloration of 

 hind tibiae, which are bright red in undulata and sanguine- 

 ous in the other species. 



