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fourth joint short, thickened, black, with its apex ochraceous ; 

 pronotum about twice as long as broad, thickly, finely punctate, 

 before middle transversely callose, and thence centrally 

 Jongitudinally carinate, basal margin usually darker as in figure ; 



Fig. 8J. Ilerdtica prima. 



scutellutn a little gibbous at base ; ]egs ochraceous, femora with 

 their incrassated apices darker, those of the anterior femora 

 darkest ; tarsi with their apical areas black or blackish. 



Length 5-5| millim. 



Hab. South India; Chikkaballapura and Nandidrug (T. V. 

 Campbell). 



Genus MEGALOMERIUM 



Megalomerium, Fieb. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1854, p. 208; Eur. Hem. 



pp. 54 & 213 (1861) ; Oshan. Verz. Pal Hem. i, p. 242 



(1906-9). 



Metacanthus, Costa, dm. Reijni Nmp. Cent. 1, p. 27 (1838). 

 Megalomerium ? Bredd. Dentsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 37. 



Type, M. meridionale, Costa, a Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Palsearctic and Oriental Eegions. 



Head longer than broad, the apex moderately subacutely 

 produced, considerably longer in front of eyes than behind eyes 

 to base ; antennae slender, first joint longest and very slightly 

 thickened at apex, second and third joints subequal in length, 

 fourth short and distinctly incrassated ; pronotum long, twice 

 as long as greatest breadth, with a long distinct anterior narrow 

 collar, gradually subconvexly widened to base, the basal margin 

 very slightly einarginate, the posterior two-thirds moderately 

 convex and with a distinct, central, longitudinal ridge ; scutellum 



