MESOVEIilA. 



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Distribution. Eecorded from the Palaearctic, Nearctie, Neo- 

 tropical, and Oriental Eegions, but probably still more widely 

 distributed. 



Elongate, hemelytra not always fully developed ; head with the 

 eyes large and almost touching anterior margin of pronotum, 

 ocelli about equally distant from eyes as from each other, anten- 

 niferous tubercles well developed ; antennae four-jointed ; rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxae; pronotum with tlie lateral angles 

 somewhat tuberculously subprominent, its posterior margin a little 

 sinuate : scutellum large, its apex somew hat broadly truncate ; 

 corium with very robust venation : cla\us submembranous ; legs 

 long and slender, tarsi three-jointed. 



954. Mesovelia mulsanti, Buck. White, Tr. E. S. 1879. p. 268; 



Champ. Biol. Centr.-Am., Rhynch. ii. p. 123, pi. viii, ff. 10 & 11 



(1898). 

 Mesovelia bisioiiata, Uhler, hi Kim/sley's Stand. Nat. Hist. ii. 



p. 273, f. 324 (1884) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 700. 

 Mesovelia orientali.s, Kirk. Ann. Miis. Civ. Gen. xl, p. 808 (1900). 



stramineous or pale luteous ; 

 joints, posterior area of the 



extreme apices of the antennal 

 pronotuu!, lateral margins of 

 the scutellum, and veins to 

 corium fuscous ; corium ex- 

 hibiting a pale discal cell at 

 apical margin; membrane pale 

 hyaline, with an opalescent 

 tint ; body beneath finely 

 greyishly pubescent ; apices 

 of the tarsi piceous ; the eyes 

 are usually piceous, but in the 

 type of Kirkaldy's Sumatran 

 orientalis they are pale brown- 

 ish ; first, third and fourth 

 joints of the antennae sub- 

 equal in length, second joint 

 shortest ; tibiae longly hirsute, 

 intermediate femora armed 

 with tine spinules beneath. 

 Length "Ik to 3 millim. 

 Hab. Ceylon ; Peradeniya, 

 Tangalla {Green). — Sumatra 

 {Beccari) ; also found in North 

 and Central America, and in 

 the Antilles. 



I have been able to compare Kirkaldy's type and Green's Ceylon 

 examples with the fine Neotropical series of specimens referred 

 to in the ' Biol. Centr.-Amer.' and now contained in the British 

 Museum. 



Mesovelia midsantL 



