Rhynchota .. . e-fourth shorterthan third, near the end faintly clubbed, fourth very slender,spindle-shaped, longer than second, a little shorter than third.{BreAdin.) ? Length 2| millim. Hah. Ceylon; l^egomho {fide Breddin). I have not seen this species. PIRKIMERUS.— MACROrES. jy Subfamily BLISSIN^. (Vol. II, p. 21.) Genus PIRKIMERUS. (Vol. II, p. 22.) 2788. Pirkimerus nicobarensis, Did. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 322(1909). Head, pronotum, scutellum, and body beneath pitchy-brown ;first, second, and tliird joints of antennae, rostrum, and legs ochra-ceous ; fourth joint of antenna? pitchy-brown


Rhynchota .. . e-fourth shorterthan third, near the end faintly clubbed, fourth very slender,spindle-shaped, longer than second, a little shorter than third.{BreAdin.) ? Length 2| millim. Hah. Ceylon; l^egomho {fide Breddin). I have not seen this species. PIRKIMERUS.— MACROrES. jy Subfamily BLISSIN^. (Vol. II, p. 21.) Genus PIRKIMERUS. (Vol. II, p. 22.) 2788. Pirkimerus nicobarensis, Did. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 322(1909). Head, pronotum, scutellum, and body beneath pitchy-brown ;first, second, and tliird joints of antennae, rostrum, and legs ochra-ceous ; fourth joint of antenna? pitchy-brown ; hemelytra paleumber-brown; outer margin of clavus, an elongate marginal spotbefore middle, and a marginal spot to membrane pale ochraceous;between these spots the margin is much darker ochraceous ; secondand third joints of autennaj subequal in length, each a little longerthan first, fourth longest, incrassate and pilose ; pronotum stronglytransversely impressed, punctate and wrinkled at anterior margin,. Fig. 7.—Pirkimenis nicoh(ireii»is. the posterior area discally foveately depressed, anteriorly coarselypunctate, posteriorly finely transversely striate; scutellum dis-tinctly centrally longitudinally carinate; membrane not quitereaching the apical abdominal segment; posterior femora finelyspined beneath, the posterior tibise strongly marginally setose:basal joint of posterior tarsi much longer than the second audthird joints. Length 5 millim. Hah. Nicobar Islands {Eorjers, Brit. Mas.). Genus MACROPES. (Vol. II, p. 24.) 2789. Macropes dilutus. (Vol. Il, p. 2.).) Var. nesiota, Bredd. Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 45. Head, pronotum, scutellum, abdomen above, underside, legsand antenme deep black; tibia) pitchy-black,tarsi (at least basally), AOL. V. C 18; APPENDIX. IjYGJEIDJE. and generally fiist joint of autennre suffused pitchy-brown ; tegrainaextending to sixth abdominal segment, milk-white, towards costaslightly yellowish, basal third of clavas, claval suture, as


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