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and Saussure’s name has priority. I consider the Asiatic Sc. brunneri, 
Sauss., as a mere geographical race of the Western Mediterranean 
Sc. notabilis, Walk. (=brullei, Sauss.), the difference between them being too 
insignificant for separation of species. This race occurs in two different colour 
forms, which might be taken together, one with rose wings and another with 
yellow wings ; it is distributed all over the deserts of S. W. Asia, from North 
Kashmir and Bombay to Ordubad in Transcaucasia and to Southern Arabia, 
occurring even at Massowah, on the African Coast of the Red Sea. 
Specimens in British Museum are from following locahties ; — Aden, Arabia 
(Co-types of blanchardiavM, Sauss). ; Muscat, Dr. Jayakar ; Malakand, N. India, 
A. Begbie ; Campbellpore, N. India ; Hunza, N. Kashmir ; Quetta, Baluchistan. 
In the Bombay Natural History Society there is one female from Teghab Kelat, 
Baluchistan, 28, viii, 17, J. E. B. Hotson. 
28. Morphaeris fasciata, Thunbg., &h sulcata, Thunb. — SjTia, 1 cj (British 
Museum). — Full synonymy of this species is given by me in another paper on 
the Indian Orthoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1921, p. 488). 
29. Mioscirtus wagneri Ev. — Fao, Persian Gulf, v., 91, W. D. Cumming, 
2 $ 5 — Specimens from Mesopotamia and Southern Persia are somewhat larger 
than those from the original locality of the species, which is Sarepta, North from 
Caspian Sea ; if this difference proves to be constant in large series of speci- 
mens, a distinct southern geographical race may be distinguished, which might 
be called subsp. rogenhoferi, Sauss. (described as Conozoa rogenhoferi, Sauss.). 
30. Pyrgodera armata, F. W. — Jebel-Hamrin, River Diala, Mesopotamia, 
vii, 18, 1 d , H. D. Piele ; Ba^tyari, W. Persia, 29, vi. 11,1 d , G. B. Scott (British 
Museum) ; Abadeh, W. Persia, P. Paschen (Bombay Society) ; Eivar-i-kerkha, 
Persia, iv. Vol. 1907, I. deMorgan (Paris Museum), 
31. Sphingonotus savignyi, Sauss. — Abadeh, Persia, vii-viii, P. Paschen 
(Bombay Society). 
32. Sphingonotus brunneri, Sauss. — Abadeh, Persia, vii-viii, 1 5 , P. 
Paschen (Bombay Society). 
33. Spingonatus balteaus, Serv. — Abadeh, Persia, vii-viii, 1 d > 2 2 2, 
P, Paschen (Bombay Society), 
34. Sphingonotus octofasciatus, Serv. — Abadeh, Persia, v-vi, 2 d d , 
3 2 2 - P- Paschen (Bombay Society). 
35. Helioscirtus moseri, Sauss. — Benn-Chah-Bah, Baluchistan, 20. viii. 
17, 1 2 > J- E. B. Hotson (Bombay Society). 
Iranella, gen. nov. 
General habitus not unlike that of Sphingonotus, but elytra and wings only 
half developed. 
Head rather large and thick. Front vertical ; frontal ridge above ocellum 
flat, broad, strongly punctured, below ocellum suddenly depressed and narrowed, 
with lateral margins raised, and totally disappearing half-way between ocellum 
and clypeus ; face broad ; facial keels strongly raised, rather thick, vertical, 
diverging downwards ; lateral ocelli touching the eyes and lateral margins of 
fastigium ; fastigium strongly sloping, shghtly convex, strongly rugose, with a 
short median sulcus which is widened anteriorly, then narrowed again and 
passing gradually into frontal ridge ; vertex between the eyes slightly concave, 
broad, with lateral margins straight, parallel, with a low median carinula, 
bifurcate anteriorily, very narrowly sulcate and extended into the occiput , 
the latter strongly rugose. Pronotum in prozona constricted and cylindrical 
intersected by three deep transverse sulci, the second one being bifurcate in that 
disc, so that the latter is intersected by four sulci ; lateral keels in prozona 
distinct, but interrupted in the middle ; metazona equal in length to prozona, 
slightly convex, strongly rugose and densely covered with small tubercules, 
while tubercules in prozona are large, but not densely placed ; median Carina 
in prozona replaced by a scarcely perceptible sulcus, while in metazona it is 
