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  B. 
  P. 
  UVAROV. 
  

  

  Specimens 
  examined. 
  — 
  N. 
  India, 
  1 
  $, 
  1 
  $ 
  (Walker's 
  types 
  ; 
  Brit. 
  Museum) 
  ; 
  

   Himalaya, 
  1 
  £, 
  1 
  $ 
  (cotypes 
  of 
  H. 
  citrinolimbatus 
  , 
  Br. 
  Watt. 
  ; 
  Wiener 
  Mus.) 
  ; 
  

   Sikkim 
  1, 
  <$ 
  (named 
  bv 
  Brunner 
  v. 
  Wattenwyl 
  as 
  H. 
  citrinolimbatus 
  ; 
  Wiener 
  Mus.) 
  ; 
  

   Kasal 
  Mandvi, 
  Surat, 
  "Bombay, 
  5.X.1903, 
  1 
  £ 
  (Pusa 
  Coll.). 
  

  

  Other 
  reliable 
  records 
  for 
  this 
  species 
  are 
  Sylhet 
  (typical 
  locality 
  for 
  H. 
  tarsalis, 
  

   St.), 
  and 
  Bhamo, 
  Burma 
  (typical 
  locality 
  for 
  H. 
  citrinolimbatus, 
  Br. 
  Watt.) 
  ; 
  while 
  

   that 
  from 
  China 
  (Stal, 
  I.e.) 
  , 
  besides 
  being 
  very 
  indefinite, 
  wants 
  confirmation. 
  Kirby's 
  

   record 
  from 
  Kanara, 
  Bombay, 
  refers 
  to 
  the 
  next 
  species. 
  

  

  Economic 
  importance. 
  — 
  The 
  specimen 
  from 
  Pusa 
  collection 
  taken 
  at 
  Kasal 
  Mandvi, 
  

   Surat, 
  is 
  labelled 
  " 
  crops," 
  as 
  are 
  also 
  several 
  specimens 
  of 
  H. 
  oryzivorus 
  taken 
  simul- 
  

   taneously, 
  so 
  that 
  there 
  is 
  certain 
  reason 
  to 
  suspect 
  this 
  species 
  as 
  a 
  pest. 
  Kirby's 
  

   suggestion 
  (Fauna 
  Brit. 
  India, 
  p. 
  205) 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  commoner 
  than 
  H. 
  banian 
  is 
  quite 
  

   inexplicable, 
  since 
  he 
  has 
  not 
  seen 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  two 
  type 
  specimens. 
  

  

  3. 
  Hieroglyphus 
  annulicornis 
  (Shir.) 
  (fig. 
  1 
  G). 
  

  

  1910. 
  Oxya 
  annulicornis, 
  Shiraki, 
  Acrididen 
  Japans, 
  pp. 
  53, 
  57, 
  figs. 
  12 
  a, 
  b, 
  c. 
  

   1910. 
  Oxya 
  annulicornis, 
  Matsumura, 
  Ztschr. 
  Wiss. 
  Insektenbiol., 
  vi, 
  Heft 
  3 
  

   25. 
  hi. 
  1910), 
  p. 
  102 
  (nomen 
  nudum 
  !). 
  

  

  1910. 
  Oxya 
  annulicornis, 
  Matsumura, 
  Die 
  Schadl. 
  u. 
  niitzl. 
  Insekten 
  vom 
  Zukerrohr 
  

   Formosas, 
  p. 
  2, 
  pi. 
  iv, 
  fig. 
  4 
  (28.vii.1910). 
  

  

  1911. 
  Oxya 
  annulicornis, 
  Matsumura, 
  Mem. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Belg., 
  xviii, 
  p. 
  129. 
  

  

  1912. 
  Hieroglyphus 
  formosanus, 
  Bolivar, 
  Trab. 
  Mus. 
  Madrid, 
  no. 
  6, 
  pp. 
  54, 
  55. 
  

  

  1913. 
  Oxya 
  annulicornis, 
  Matsumura, 
  Thousand 
  Insects 
  of 
  Japan, 
  Addit. 
  i, 
  p. 
  19, 
  

   pi. 
  iii, 
  fig. 
  4. 
  

  

  1916. 
  Hieroglyphus 
  tonkinensis, 
  Carl, 
  Revue 
  Suisse 
  Zool., 
  xxiv, 
  no. 
  6, 
  pp. 
  478, 
  479 
  

  

  {nee 
  H. 
  tonkinensis, 
  Bol. 
  1912 
  !). 
  

   1918. 
  Hieroglyphus 
  annulicornis, 
  Bolivar, 
  Trab. 
  Mus. 
  Madrid, 
  no. 
  34, 
  pp. 
  29. 
  

   1918. 
  Hieroglyphus 
  formosanus, 
  Bolivar, 
  I.e., 
  p. 
  29. 
  

  

  Though 
  Shiraki 
  himself 
  has 
  described 
  the 
  insect 
  as 
  Oxya 
  annulicornis, 
  Mats, 
  

   (n. 
  sp.), 
  it 
  appears 
  that 
  he 
  only 
  adopted 
  for 
  it 
  the 
  manuscript 
  name 
  by 
  Matsumura, 
  

   who 
  twice 
  (1910 
  and 
  1911) 
  described 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  new 
  species, 
  but 
  apparently 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  

   these 
  descriptions 
  was 
  published 
  after 
  that 
  of 
  Shiraki, 
  as 
  the 
  paper 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  

   author 
  though 
  marked 
  on 
  the 
  cover 
  1910, 
  bears 
  on 
  p. 
  87 
  the 
  date 
  of 
  4th 
  May 
  1909, 
  

   while 
  Matsumura's 
  first 
  description 
  appeared 
  on 
  28th 
  July 
  1910. 
  It 
  is 
  not 
  impossible, 
  

   of 
  course, 
  that 
  the 
  date 
  quoted 
  from 
  Shiraki 
  refers 
  to 
  the 
  completion 
  of 
  his 
  manu- 
  

   script, 
  and 
  in 
  this 
  case 
  the 
  question 
  of 
  authorship 
  can 
  be 
  settled 
  only 
  by 
  finding 
  

   out 
  the 
  exact 
  date 
  of 
  publication 
  of 
  Shiraki's 
  paper, 
  which 
  may 
  be 
  possible 
  in 
  Japan. 
  

   In 
  the 
  meantime, 
  I 
  adopt 
  the 
  authorship 
  of 
  Shiraki, 
  as 
  Matsumura's 
  description 
  is 
  

   very 
  incomplete 
  and 
  unsatisfactory. 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  forms 
  a 
  kind 
  of 
  link 
  between 
  two 
  groups, 
  that 
  of 
  H. 
  concolor 
  and 
  H. 
  

   africanus, 
  on 
  the 
  one 
  hand, 
  and 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  on 
  the 
  other, 
  but 
  it 
  belongs 
  

   obviously 
  to 
  the 
  first 
  group. 
  It 
  is 
  easily 
  recognised 
  by 
  the 
  very 
  long 
  cerci 
  and 
  

   apically 
  attenuate 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  (fig. 
  1 
  G), 
  while 
  the 
  female 
  also 
  may 
  

   be 
  always 
  identified 
  by 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  two 
  granulate 
  carinae 
  on 
  its 
  subgenital 
  plate. 
  

   In 
  the 
  coloration 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  tarsi 
  it 
  agrees 
  with 
  H. 
  banian, 
  but 
  is 
  quite 
  distinct 
  from 
  

   both 
  this 
  and 
  H. 
  concolor, 
  while 
  it 
  occupies 
  an 
  intermediate 
  position 
  between 
  these 
  

   two 
  species 
  with 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  puncturation 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum. 
  The 
  series 
  before 
  

   me 
  is 
  insufficient 
  to 
  judge 
  of 
  the 
  variability 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  in 
  coloration, 
  but 
  so 
  far 
  

   as 
  it 
  goes, 
  only 
  the 
  hindmost 
  sulcus 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  disc 
  only, 
  is 
  

   narrowly 
  filled 
  with 
  black, 
  while 
  the 
  third 
  sulcus 
  is 
  just 
  a 
  little 
  darkened, 
  and 
  the 
  

   remaining 
  ones 
  are 
  unicolorous 
  with 
  the 
  pronotum. 
  With 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  dimensions, 
  

   the 
  Chinese 
  specimens 
  are 
  fairly 
  uniform, 
  but 
  differ 
  in 
  size 
  from 
  both 
  Indian 
  and 
  

  

  