71 
THREE NEW ALPINE ORTHOPTERA FROM 
CENTRAL ASIA, 
By 
B. P. UVAROV, F.E.S. 
That the entirely unexplored Alpine Orthopteran fauna of the great mountain- 
ous systems of the Central Asia (Kashmir, Tibet, etc.), includes many unknown 
and even unexpected forms, is evidenced by the fact of my discovery of three 
very peculiar new genera and species of these insects in the British Museum 
collection where the Central Asiatic Orthoptera are represented by only a few 
casual specimens. I hope, therefore, that the entomologists who have the chance 
of collecting in those countries, will pay more attention to grasshoppers, locusts, 
crickets and mantids, which are usually neglected as being “ uninteresting ” 
In fact, the collecting and preserving (in paper packets, or amongst layers of 
cotton-wool) of these insects is very easy and takes but very little time and 
trouble, and the results are always very gratifying. The author should be very 
glad to get for identification all collections of Orthoptera from Central Asia, 
those from high mountains and from deserts* being the most interesting ; the 
collections may be sent to the British Museum (Natural History), London, 
Cromwell Road, 8. W. 7, and will be promptly worked out and returned, except 
the types of new forms and duplicates wanted for the Museum. 
The types and paratypes of the insects described in this paper are in the 
British Museum collection. 
Sub-family : Locustide, 
1. Orinhippus, gen. nov. 
. Resembling somewhat in its habitus to Sphingonotus but with very small, 
lateral elytra and wings. Antennze sub-equal to the head and pronotum to- 
gether, very slightly widened apically ; their bases are scarcely above the line 
connecting the lower edges of the eyes. Head not thicker than the pronotum 
in its fore part ; face somewhat reclinate ; frontal ridge distinctly prominent, 
coarsely rugose, with its margins raised, teebly divergent from fastigium to- 
wards the middle ocellum, suddenly and strongly constricted below it, then sub- 
parallel but less distant than above the ocellum ; fastigium of the vertex sloping, 
forming an obtuse but not rounded angle with the frontal ridge, longer than it is 
broad, with the surface impressed ; temporal foveolz very small, irregular ; occi- 
put globose, short ; eyes slightly ‘prominent sideways but not at all upwards, 
short-oval, scar coly higher than long. Pronotum on the same level as the head, 
distmetly narrowed anteriorly but without any constriction (7.e., conical) ; its 
disc feebly convex ; median keel linear, interrupted by two transverse sulci ; the 
second (typical) sulcus placed about the middle of the pronotum ; lateral keels 
slightly indicated by the small elongate ridges at the fore margin, not reaching 
the first sulcus ; fore margin straight ; higd margin very widely rounded ; lateral 
lobes a little higher than long, narrowed downwards ; their fore angle obtuse ; 
lower margin nearly straight, oblique ; hind angle obliquely truncate ; hind 
margin oblique, slightly excavate. Prosternum somewhat incrassate. Mesos- 
ternal lobes distinctly transverse, with inner margins and hind angles rounded ; 
* As far as I know, not a single specimen of Orthoptera from the Indian Desert, for 
instance, reached the hands of a specialist, and our knowledge of the fauna of Balu- 
chistan, ‘Afghanistan a. o.is worse than fragmentary. 
