ZOOLOGICAL SERIES "*****!* OF FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Volume XX CHICAGO, AUGUST 30, 1938 No. 33 ORTHOPTERA FROM IRAQ AND IRAN BY B. P. UvAROV 1 The fragmentary state of our knowledge on the distribution of Orthoptera in southwestern Asia makes every collection from that area of great scientific value. The collections made by Dr. Henry Field and his collaborators in Iraq and Iran during the Field Museum Anthropological Expedition to the Near East in 1934 and by his collector, Yusuf Lazar, who has sent specimens from Iraq during 1935 and 1936, are of particular interest, since some of the material was collected from localities from which no records of Orthoptera existed. The spelling of place-names conforms, wherever possible, to the form adopted by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names appointed by the Royal Geographical Society, London. Among the significant results of the expedition, particularly important was the rediscovery of Eremocharis syriaca I. Bolivar, an acridid which was very insufficiently described and whose affinities remained obscure. The specimen brought back by the expedition enabled me to identify this species and to prove that Eremocharis syriaca is really a member of the genus Utubius Uvarov belonging to the isolated and ancient Irano-Turanian group Thrinchini. Another valuable discovery was that of a female of a mantid, Iris nana Uvarov, which species was known from the male sex alone. It will be seen that the collection, although not very large, proved to be of definite, scientific value, and I am greatly obliged to Mr. Clifford C. Gregg, Director of Field Museum, for permitting me to work it out for publication, as well as for the generosity of the Trustees of Field Museum in presenting to the British Museum (Natural History) some of the more interesting specimens. BLATTIDAE Polyphaga pellucida (Redtenbacher). Iran: Takht-i-Jamshid (Persepolis), one male, August 26, 1934; H. Field. Widely distributed in Iran, Transcaspia, and Turkestan. Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History). No. 423 439 Natural Ubrary
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