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



hottentotus St. in the subgenus Calliptenus (i. sp.). Three 

 years later, in his paper on South African Orthoptera, he 

 for some unknown reason altered his original conception 

 of the genus Eury2^hj')mis by including in it hottentohis 

 and two more new species, curvipes St. and vylderi St., 

 which rendered the generic diagnosis extremely vague and 

 indefinite. As a direct sequel of this, the genus Eunj- 

 j)liymus became a kind of storing place for all African 

 species of Calliptamini with the inner spurs of the hind 

 tibiae not elongate {i. e. which could not be put into Calop- 

 tenopsis), however strikingly different from each other 

 those s]3ecies might be. As'this group is very well developed 

 in South Africa, the number of species described as " Eury- 

 fhymus " speedily increased up to 19, as listed in M. 

 Fernandez's revision. This latter author removed, though, 

 one &]iecies—fern(ginosus St. from Eury])Jiymus and made 

 it the type of a new genus, Plegmapterus M. Fern. ; thus 

 only two possible genotypes, viz. haematopus and ery- 

 thropus, remained in the genus Euryphymus. 



Giglio-Tos described in 1907 the genus Phymeurus with 

 Ph. pardalis G.-T., as the genotype. It is quite obvious 

 from the description of Phymeurus that Giglio-Tos com- 

 pared it neither with haematopus nor with erythropus, but 

 with some species of what had been at that time called 

 Euryphymus. Moreover, there is no doubt that Ph. 

 pardalis is very closely related to haematopus and obviously 

 congeneric with it. Since Kirby has indicated haematopus 

 as the genotype of Euryphymus, Phymeurus must be 

 regarded as a pure synonym of Euryphymus, and the 

 latter genus must be restricted to haematopus L., eremo- 

 bioides Bol. and tuherculatus M. Fern., while erythropus 

 Thunbg. presents a type of a distinct new genus. 



The description of Phymeurus, as given by Giglio-Tos, 

 may be used as generic diagnosis of Euryphymus in the 

 restricted sense, with addition of characters of the male 

 genitalia which are given in my key to the genera (see 

 p. 120). 



All other 35 species included in the genus Euryphymus 

 in Kirby's Catalogue belong partly to several new genera 

 described in this paper, partly to Caloptenopsis {unicarinatus 

 Krauss, marginipennis Karsch and glaucopsis Walk. ; 

 see pp. 127 and 129 of this paper), while the generic position 

 of several insufficiently described species of I. BoUvar 

 and other authors, as well as of eight of Walker's species 



