﻿neio 
  Species 
  of 
  Hemipterous 
  Insects. 
  9 
  

  

  *Antennarum 
  articulo 
  secundo 
  tertio 
  multo 
  longiori. 
  

   1. 
  Mecidea 
  quadriviltala. 
  

  

  Cerataulax 
  quadr'iviUatus, 
  Signoret, 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  2me 
  

  

  ser., 
  ix. 
  336, 
  pi. 
  10, 
  f. 
  9& 
  9a. 
  

   M. 
  albida, 
  supra 
  fusco-punctatissima 
  ; 
  linea 
  media 
  thoracis 
  et 
  

  

  scutelli, 
  thoracis 
  linea 
  utrinque 
  marginibusque 
  elytrorum 
  

  

  albidis 
  ; 
  corpore 
  subtus 
  utrinque 
  fascia 
  longitudinali 
  e 
  punctis 
  

  

  fuscis 
  ; 
  antennis 
  fuscis. 
  $ 
  . 
  

   Long. 
  lin. 
  5— 
  6 
  (m. 
  0.011— 
  0.013). 
  

  

  Hab. 
  in 
  Insula 
  Mauritius. 
  In 
  Mr. 
  Westwood's 
  and 
  M. 
  Sig- 
  

   iioret's 
  collections. 
  

  

  2. 
  Mecidea 
  Ind'ica. 
  

  

  Ball. 
  Cat. 
  Hem. 
  139. 
  1. 
  PI. 
  3, 
  fig. 
  3. 
  

  

  M. 
  pallide 
  testacea, 
  punctatissima, 
  linea 
  media 
  thoracis 
  et 
  

  

  scutelli 
  impunctata 
  ; 
  antennis 
  obscurioribus. 
  $ 
  ?. 
  

   Long. 
  lin. 
  5 
  (m. 
  0.011). 
  

  

  Hab. 
  in 
  India 
  Orientali. 
  In 
  the 
  collections 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Mu- 
  

   seum 
  and 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Saunders. 
  

  

  f 
  Antennarum 
  articulis 
  secundo 
  et 
  tertio 
  longitudine 
  fere 
  

   sequalibus. 
  

  

  3. 
  Mecidea 
  linearis. 
  Dall. 
  Cat. 
  Hem. 
  139. 
  2. 
  

  

  M. 
  griseo-lutea, 
  fusco-punctata 
  ; 
  membrana 
  hyalina 
  ; 
  corpore 
  

  

  subtus 
  utrinque 
  fascia 
  longitudinali 
  fusca. 
  $. 
  

   Long. 
  \in. 
  4^ 
  (m. 
  0.009). 
  

   Hab. 
  ? 
  In 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Genus 
  ^Ednus, 
  Dall. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  projxjsed 
  (British 
  Museum 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  Hemiptera, 
  

   p. 
  144), 
  the 
  formation 
  of 
  a 
  genus 
  under 
  this 
  name, 
  for 
  the 
  recep- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  family 
  Sciocoridce, 
  distinguished 
  by 
  the 
  

   large 
  size 
  of 
  its 
  scutellum, 
  which 
  reaches 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  

   the 
  body, 
  and 
  thus 
  gives 
  it 
  a 
  considerable 
  resemblance 
  to 
  some 
  

   members 
  of 
  the 
  Scutelleroid 
  group, 
  especially 
  the 
  Podopidce. 
  I 
  

   have 
  now 
  to 
  lay 
  before 
  the 
  Society 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  a 
  second 
  

   species 
  of 
  the 
  genus, 
  which 
  still 
  more 
  closely 
  resembles 
  the 
  

   Podopidce 
  in 
  its 
  general 
  form, 
  and 
  might 
  easily 
  be 
  mistaken 
  for 
  a 
  

  

  