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Genus Paromtus. 
Paromius seychellesus. 
Plocitomerus seychelkesus, Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. 120 (1872). 
Pamera ejuncida, Dist. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 433, pl. xx. fig. 3. 
Paromius seychellesus, Leth. & Sev. Cat. Gén. Hém. t. ii. p. 189 
(1894), 
This appears to be a very widely distributed species. 
Walker’s typical specimens were received from the Seychelle 
Islands ; my P. ejuncida was founded on Japanese examples, 
and I now possess specimens from Ceylon, Queensland, and 
Samoa. I have followed Lethierry and Severin in placing 
the species in the genus Paromius, Fieb., taking P. gracilis, 
Ramb., as the nearest allied species. The slender elongate 
form alone sufficiently separates Paromius from Pamera, and 
I am doubtful whether the first should not be considered as 
a section only of the last. 
Paromius Dohrni. 
Lygeus (Plociomerus) Dohrni, Guér. in Sagra, Hist. de Cuba, Ins. p. 400 
(1857). 
Ptochiomerus Dohrnit, Uhler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 705. 
PRIMIERUS, gen. nov. 
Head moderately long and slender, pointed in front, the 
central lobe produced before the lateral lobes; anteune with 
the basal joint stout, reaching for about half its length from 
the apex of the head, second longest and slender, third slender, 
shorter than second, and very slightly clavate at apex, fourth 
slightly thickened, about as long or a little shorter than the 
third; rostrum about reaching the posterior cox, basal 
joint shorter than the head. Pronotum with a narrow collar, 
strongly constricted near middle, the anterior lobe moderately 
globose and a little shorter than the posterior lobe ; posterior 
margin before scutellum concave, lateral angles distinctly 
spinous, the spines directed backwards. Other characters 
generally as in Prosomeus, Scott, from which it differs by 
the longer rostrum, the spinous lateral angles of the pro- 
notum, and by having the intermediate and posterior femora 
more slender, not apically clavate, and both without spines. 
Primierus bispinus. 
Plociomerus bispinus, Motsch. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 1863, p. 81. 
Brownish ochraceous; apex of rostrum, apical joint of 
antennz and apex of third joint, extreme apices of the tibiz 
