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22. Dittopternis venusta, Walk. 
Shevaroys, Madras, 4000’, 24. viii. 1907. 
23. Trilophidia aspera, Walk. 
1870. Epacromia aspera, Walk. Cat. Derm. Salt. iv. p. 775. 
1884. Trilophidia annulata, Saussure (nec Thunberg), Prodr. Cidip. 
p. 157. 
Kirby (Fauna Br. Ind. p. 150) regards this species as 
synonymous with cristella, Stal, which is, however, wrong, 
since cristella, according to the original description, has the 
prozona of the pronotum without lateral tubercules, aud in 
aspera these are well-developed. 
The specimens in the collection are from Pusa, Chapra, 
and Lebong, 5000’. 
24, Trilophidia annulata, Thunbg. 
To the synonyms of this species given by Kirby (Fauna 
Br. Ind. p. 140) must be added also Epacromia turpis, 
Walk., and Trilophidia annulata, var. ceylonica, Sauss.; the 
full explanation of this synonymy will be given by me in 
another paper. 
The specimens were taken at Koilpati, Madras. 
25. Morphacris fasciata, Thunbg. 
1815. Gryllus fasciatus, Thunberg, Mém. Acad. Pétersb. v. p- — 
1815. Gryllus sanguineus, Thunberg, l. ce. p. 2381. 
1815. Gryllus sulcatus, Thunberg, ire. p. 234, 
1839, Gtdipoda strigata, Serville, Ins. Orth. p. 726. no. 7. 
1853. Gidipoda venusta, Fieber, Lotos, iii. p. 128. no. 7. 
1870. Morphacris adusta, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iv. p. 790 
(larva). 
1888. Cosmorhyssa costata, Saussure, Addit. ad Prodr. Cidip. p. 37. 
no. 3. 
1910. Morphacris citrina, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth. ili. p. 219, no. 4. 
After a careful examination of large series of Morphacris 
from its whole area of distribution, which includes the 
whole of Africa and Southern Asia (with Ceylon), contained 
in the British Museum, I am fully convinced that all the 
above-quoted “species” are based on variations in the 
coloration, especially that of the wings, since the structural 
characters given, for instance, by Saussure as peculiar to his 
costata, prove to be inconstant when a series of specimens 
taken at the same locality are studied. As for the colo- 
yauion of the wings, it varies just to the same extent as in 
