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



01 the male cerci, which enables me to separate it from all its 

 nearest relatives (Caloptenopsis, Paracalopfenns, Brachy- 

 xenia) : the cerci of Caloptenns are armed with two obtuse 

 subapical teeth, while in other genera the cerci bear only 

 one rather long and acute subapical spine (Plate I, 

 figs. 1 and 2). 



1. Calliptamus italicus (L.) 

 (Plate I, fig. 1.) 



To the numerous synonyms of this species (see Kirby's 

 Catalogue, iii, pp. 551-553) six more must be added, as 

 follows : — 



1846. Calliptamus marmoratns Fisch.-Waldh., Orth. Imp. 



Eoss., p. 242, no. 5. 

 1846. CaUiptamns- cephalotes Fisch.-Waldh., I.e., p. 243, 



no. 6 (identical with var. icterica Serv.). 

 1870. Caloptemis discoidalis Walk"., Cat. Derm. 8alt. B. M., 



iv, p. 686, no. 23. 

 1908. CaUiptamns iciericus Karny, Wiss. Erg. Exped. 



Filchner, x, 1, p. 35. 



1913. Calliptamus ahbreviatus Ikonnikov, Uber die von P. 

 Schmidt aus Korea mitgebrachten Acridiodeen, p. 21. 



1914. CaJoptenopsis punciaia Kirby, Fauna Brit. India, 

 Acrid., pp. 258 and 260, no. 320, fig. 138. 



The variabiUty of this species is a well-knowTl fact, but 

 nobody has yet tried to undertake a serious study of its 

 numerous forms, some of which are very striking and rather 

 constant. As the species is so extremely common and 

 numerous all over South Europe, it might present an 

 excellent object for the experimental study of variations, 

 which should be of great help to systematists. As the 

 case stands now, it seems to me quite useless to attempt 

 a classification of varieties based upon collection specimens 

 only, and I prefer to take the species in its widest sense, 

 without any subdivisions. 



British MuseAim specimens : As the distribution of this 

 species throughout the Mediterranean subregion is well 

 known, I shall not give here the records of Museum speci- 

 mens from that subregion. The occurrence of C. italicus L. 

 in Baltistan (Kashmir) is, however, very interesting, and 

 the more so, as the Museum collection contains several 



