DESCRIPTIONS OF OIITROPTERA FROM S. If. ASIA. 
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1884, Vol. liii, pi. xiii, fig. la, lb.) which according to the author (Revis. Mantid.> 
1889, p. 22) presents the same species. The drawing of the head is, however, 
not quite exact, since it presents the lower surface of frontal appendix as convex, 
while it is entirely flat, as rightly described by Saussure. This species has 
been known from Sylhet, Calcutta and Mysore ; Quetta is, therefore, the most 
north-western known point of its distribution. 
10. Blepharopsis mendica nuda, Giglio-Tos. 
1917. Blepharopsis nuda, Giglio-Tos, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., xlviii, 
p. 70 (of separate copy.) 
Numerous specimens in British Museum from Arabia, Sinai, Mesopotamia, 
Quetta, etc. 
The characters of nuda are not quite constant ; especially variable and not 
characteristic for nuda is the degree of hairiness of the pronotum, on which 
Giglio-Tos has based his species. On the other hand the form of femoral lobes, 
specially those of middle femora, is rather constant : while in typical mendica 
(from Portugal, Canaries) these lobes are scarcely denticulate at all, the speci- 
mens from Desert Asia have the lobes strongly spined. As this character is, 
however, also hable to individual variation, I think it more right to regard 
nuda as but an Eastern geographical race of mendica. 
Phasmidce. 
11. Bubria LONGixiPHA, Br. Watt. 
Aden, Arabia, 1 $ (British Museum). 
The genus and this species has been hitherto known from the African Coast of 
the Red Sea. 
Locustidce. 
12. Acbidium subtjlatum, L. — Baghdad, ii. 17 (Bombay N. H. Society). 
13. Acrid ELLA robusta, Uvar. — Persia : Pusht-i-koh, Chekerava, 540 m. 
above sea-level, 1907, de Morgan (Paris Museum). 
14. Acbidella miniata, K1. — Amara, Mesopotamia, viii-ix. 16., Lt.-Col. F. P. 
Connor (Bombay N. H. Society). 
15. Acridella antennata, Krauss. 
One male and two females v/ere taken at Ktubu, Arabia, by G. W.Bury. 
The species is easily recognised by its very long antennae and strongly attenu- 
ate hind angle of pronotum, apart from the peculiar dark coloration of wings. 
16. Platypterna tibialis, Fieb. — Arabia, Percival and Dodson, 2 (^ . 2 5 ? , 
(British Museum). 
17. Platypterna pictipes, sp. n. 
$ . Of medium size for the genus. Antennae rather short (their exact length 
unknown, the tips being broken), moderately compressed and widened in basal 
part. 
Front moderately reclinate, smooth, but not shining ; frontal ridge parallel, 
slightly dilated near the ocellum, gradually and very feebly widened towards 
the clypeus ; fastigium of vertex seen in profile subequal to one-half of the length 
of an eye ; foveolae reniform, rather broad, curvate, not strongly impressed, with 
margins rounded, the upper margins being especially obtuse and low, while 
the lower ones are better developed ; vertex seen from above obtuse, rotundat^'- 
triangular at the apex, as broad, as long, convex, with thick, but very low, 
shining median carina. Eyes oval, oblique. Pronotum feebly, but distinctly 
constricted in prozona ; lateral keels parallel between the fore margin and the 
second transverse sulcus, gradually diverging behind the latter, slightly convex 
in about the middle of metazona ; median keel sharp, straight, interrupted by 
the third sulcus ; metazona distinctly shorter than prozona, distinctly convex 
and raised above the level of prozona ; hind margin obtusely angulate, with 
the angle itself not rounded ; lateral lobes rather convex, narrowed downwards, 
with fore margin sUghtly sinuate, lower margin feebly bisinuate, with a very 
