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anal tube short. Parameres elongated, attaining tip of the prolongation of pygophore, slightly arched, apical part sharply curved forward (Figs 18-21). Female: as shown in Fig. 16, wide elliptical, 2.8 times wider than greatest width of pronotum. - Measurements (in mm; 1 çj, 1 $ in HNHM). Total length of body 7.8 (cT), 7.9 ($); maximum width of body 1.4 ((?), 1.8 ($). Length of head 1.00, width across eyes 0.64, interocular space 0.34. Length of antennái segment I 5.5 (segments II—IV absent). Length of pronotum 1.02; maximum width 0.64, width across humeral angles 0.42. Length of mesonotum 0.70, metanotum 0.32. Length of fore coxa 1.32, femur 2.14, tibia 1.40, tarsus 0.70, tarsal segments (I) 0.42, (II) 0.24, (III) 0.18; length of mid femur 2.08, tibia 8.17, tarsus 0.38; length of hind femur 7.33. Remarks - As the figures of the male genital capsule presented by P. V. PUTSHKOV (1984: 18, Figs 2-3) are rather simplified, it seems useful to figure and briefly describe the capsule again. The dorsally directed process in PUTSHKOV s figure is the raised anal tube (I. M. KERZHNER, pers. comm.). Except the structure of the meso- and metathoraces, the apterous morph of P. turkestanica differs from macropterous specimens by its more rounded, subglobular fore pronotal lobe and much deeper transverse constriction separating the two pronotal lobes. Apterous specimens of this species are quite similar to P. domestica SCOPOLI, 1786, and the two species are undoubtedly closely related. Besides the male genitalia, apterous specimens of P. turkestanica also differs from the latter species in its smaller body size, less elongated and laterally more rounded pronotum and slightly different colour pattern on the dorsal surface of abdomen. Ploiaria turkestanica, hitherto known only from Kazakhstan, is new to the fauna of Azerbaijan. The female specimens in the HNHM and NHMW are either from Armenia or rather from Azerbaijan since the border between the two countries was different in LEDER'

s time. * Acknowledgements - I would like to express here my sincere gratitude to Dr T. VÁSÁRHELYI for the opportunity to work on the material deposited in the Hemiptera Collection of the HNHM; to Mr M. WEBB and Dr H. ZETTEL for their hospitality and kind help during my visit to the BMNH and NHMW, respectively; to Prof Dr I. M. KERZHNER for information and comments on the type specimen of P. turkestanica; to Dr M. MARJANYAN for information on the Hemiptera collection of ZMYA. My special thanks are due to Mr M. WEBB for constructive suggestions on the manuscript. I am also greatful to Dr B. PÉNZES, Head of the Department of Entomology at the Corvinus University of Budapest, who made my visit to London possible. REFERENCES DOHRN, A. (1860): Beiträge zu einer monographischen Bearbeitung der Familie der Emesina. Linnaea Entomologica 14: 206-255.