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In the type from Nura-Ellia the upper side of the body (except 
head and scutellum) is destroyed. The two first antennal joints are 
testaceous; in the specimens described by Distant only the basal 
joint is of that colour. 
Macropes dentipes Motsch. 
1859, Macropes dentipes Motsch. Etud. Ent, VIII, 108. 
In the type from Nura-Ellia the upper side (except head) and 
antennae are destroyed. The legs are dark piceous, apex of femora 
and first two tarsal joints testaceous. The length (d) is 5 mm. 
Oxycarenus lugubris Motsc h. 
1859. Stenogaster? lugubris Motsch. Etud. Ent., VIII, 108. 
1874. Oxycarenus lugubris Stal. Enum. Hem., IV, 141. 
1899. О. limbatipennis Bredd. Mitt. Nat. Mus. Hamburg, XVI, 174. 
1903. О. lugubris Dist. Rhynch. Brit. Ind., II, 44. 
Four type-specimens (from Nura-Ellia) in moderately good con- 
dition and some fragments of others are in the collection. Breddi n's 
species was founded on a slight colour-variety in which the margin 
of the membrane is paler and the middle tibia almost entirely dark. 
The species is distributed from Ceylon to the Philippine Islands, but 
has not yet been found in continental Asia. 
Primierus bispinus Motsch. 
1863. Plociomerus  bispinus Motsch. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, 
XXXVI, II, 81. 
1901. Primierus bispinus Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), VIII, 477. 
1901. P. indicus Dist. 1. c., 478. 
1903. P. bispinus Dist. Rhynch. Brit. Ind., II, 61. 9 
1908. P. indicus Dist. L c., 61. 
1907. P. bispinus Bredd. D. ent. Z., 217. 
Distant described his genus Primierus as belonging to the 
division Rhyparochromaria, but it belongs to. the Myodocharia and 
should be placed near the genus Omacrus Bergr. To the generic 
characters as given by Distant and Breddin should be added: 
first joint of rostrum as long as head (not shorter than it, as Di- 
stant says) and much longer than first antennal joint. Pronotum 
rather strongly declivous. 
The antennae are as long as the body, with the second joint^ 
about thrice, the third about twice the length of the first, as correctly 
described by Motschulsky. In Distant's figure the antennae, 
especially their second and third joints, are represented as much 
shorter. 
Русск. Энтом. Обозр. XVII. 1917. i 
