the Orthopera in the British Musemn. 131 



1910. Calopteno7)sis johnstoni Kirby, I.e., p. 549. 



1910. C[aloptenopsis] nigrovariegatus Kirby, I.e., p. 550, 



no. 12. 

 1910. C[aIoptenopsis] laticosta Kirby, I.e., p. 550, no. 14. 



This speeies is very easily reeognisable by the peculiar 

 shape of the frontal ridge and vertex (see Karsch's de- 

 scription of C. laticosta), and it is very astonishing that it 

 has been redescribed so many times under different names. 

 The species varies considerably in its size, and Kirby's 

 types of C. johnstoni are rather small, but there is no 

 doubt that they are conspecific with Cferrifer Walk., the 

 type of which is also before me now, as well as with the 

 fairly well-described C. nigrovariegatus Bol. and C. lati- 

 costa Karsch. It is very difficult to understand why 

 Kirby considered C. pallidicornis, which is a quite different 

 insect, as conspecific with C. ferrifer. 



British Museum specimens: S. Africa, 1 (^ {Walkers 

 type of C. ferrifer) ; Baringo, 4000 ft. {H. H. Johnston), 

 3 (^(^, 4 9$ (Kirbi/s types of C. johnstoni) ; Zomba, 2000- 

 3000 ft., 5 ^S, 1 2; Nyasaland {A. Whyte), 1 ?; Zomba 

 (P. Bendall), 1 9 (named by W. Kirby as C. tibialis Kirby) ; 

 Mwera, Mabira Forest and Entebbe, Uganda {C. C. 

 Goivdey), 3 2$; Kihmandjaro, 3000-5000 ft., 1 $. 



8. Caloptenopsis macracanthus M. Fern. 



||1889. C[aloptenus] calcaratus I. Bolivar, Jorn. Sci. 



Lisboa, seg. ser., i, p. 172, no. 175 {nee Stdl, 1876 !). 

 1902. C[aloptenopsis] macracanthus M. Fernandez, An. 



Soc. Esp. Hist. Natur., xxx, pp. 282, 287 (published 



June, 1902). 

 1902. Calliptamus tibialis Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 



p. 110, no. 119 {partim !). 

 1902. Calopteno])sis femoraUs Kirby, Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist., vol. 10, no. 57, p. 241, no. 5 (published September, 



1902). 

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



iii, p. 550. 

 1910. C[aloptenopsis] macracanthtis Kirbv, I.e., iii, p. 550, 



no. 9. 



This species is rather closely related to the C. ferrifer 

 Walk., but is easily distinguished from it by the much 

 longer metazona of the pronotum. 



