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



The synonymy of the Wo of Walker's species is obvious 

 when the types are compared; all further synonyms are 

 also beyond doubt and their origin is due entirely to the 

 fact that descriptions were made without any comparison 

 with previously known species, as well as to the variabihty 

 of the species, which is not quite constant in its characters,, 

 though in a far less degree than C. italicus is. 



British Museum sjtecimens : North Hindostan, 1 ^{Walker s 

 type of C. ghucopsis) ; South Hindostan, 2 $$ ( Walker's 

 types of C. liturifer); Baltistan, 2 ^(^, 5 5$; Ahmednajar- 

 bet, India, 1 $; Karachi, 1 $; Koilpati, Madras, 20 vii. 

 1907, 1 cJ; Africa {Dr. F. OstivaM), 1 c^, 1 ?. 



3. Caloptenopsis pallidicornis (Stal.). 



187G. C[allipteni(s] pallidicornis Stal, Ofv. Vet. Akad. 



Forhand., xxxiii, 3, p. 43, no. 1. 

 1902. C[aloptenopsis] pallidicornis M. Fernandez, Ann. Soc. 



Esp. Hist. Nat., xxx, pp. 282, 286. 

 1902. Caloptenopsis fratercula Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond., p. Ill, no. 120. 

 1902. Caloptenopsis uniformis Kirby, I.e., p. 112, no. 121. 

 1910. C[aloptenopsis] fratercida Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., 



iii, p. 550, no. 5. 

 1910. C[aloptenopsis] uniformis Kirby, I.e., p. 550, no. 6. 



This is a species which seems to be pretty constant in 

 its size and morphological characters, though rather 

 variable in the coloration. Both Kirby's species, represent 

 mere colour forms, 



British Museum specimens : Cape Colony {Miss J. 

 Brincker), 1 $; Pretoria (W. L. Distant), numerous speci- 

 mens of both sexes {Kirby' s types of C. uniformis and C. fra- 

 tercida) ; Salisbury, Mashonaland (6-'. A. K. Marshall), 

 3 ^^, 4 $9; Nyasaland, 1 ?; N. Johnston, 1 ?; Brit. 

 Centr. Africa {A. R. Andrew), 1 ?. 



C. pallidicornis is confined in its distribution to South 

 Africa. 



4. Caloptenopsis meruensis (Sjost.), 



1909. Ccdliptamus meruensis, Sjostedt, Wiss. Erg. Kilim.- 

 Meru Exped., 17. Orth., 7. Acrid., pp. 185, 192, pi. 7, 

 fig. 16. 



This species is very much alike in its habitus to C. palli- 



