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SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT OF SPECIES 1 



o. Males with penisfilum extending beyond penial plates lutzi, new species 



aa. Males with penisfilum not reaching apices of penial plates. 



h. Males with dorsal protuberance of median penial vesicula longer than 

 ventral protuberance. 

 c. Males without inner apical angles of lateral vesiculae noticeably produced. 



indie a Dallas 



pallida StS.1 



major, new species 



longula St&l 



cc. Males with inner apical angles of lateral vesiculae noticeably produced. 



kristenseni Jensen-Haarup 



prolixa St&l 



pallidissima Jensen-Haarup 



lib. Males with ventral protuberance of median penial vesiculae longer than 



dorsal protuberance minor Ruckes 



pampeana, new species 



Genus MECIDEA Dallas 



Mecidea Dallas, List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection 

 of the British Museum, vol. 1, pp. 131, 139, 1851.^ — Stal, Hemiptera Africana 

 descripsit Carolus St&l, vol. 1, pp. 79, 132, 1865; Enum. Hemip., vol. 2, p. 

 17, 1872; Enum. Hemip., vol. 5, p. 34, 1876. — Atkinson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, vol. 56, p. 201, 1887. — Distant, Fauna of British India, Rhynchota, 

 vol. 1, p. 140, 1902.— Beegroth, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1905, p. 146. — . 

 KiRKALDY, A catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera) Cimicidae, vol. 1, p 

 202, 1909. (Genotype: M. indica Dallas, designated by Distant, 1902.) 



Ceralaulax Signoret, Ann. Ent. Soc. France, ser. 2, vol. 9, pp. 335-336 and cviii, 

 1851. (Genotype: C. quadrivittatus Signoret, only included species.) 



Body elongate, linear, straw colored, with the punctures sometimes 

 darkened. Color quite uniform throughout genus. 



Head somewhat pointed anteriorly; juga longer than tylus, meeting 

 but not fused in front; eyes large, globose, ocelli prominent, nearer 

 eyes than midline of head. Antennae five-segmented and ex- 

 hibiting sexual dimorphism; second segment three-sided, angles 

 often ridgelike, always longer in the female than in the male; third 

 segment of male proportionately longer than third segment of female, 

 cylindrical and with pubescence similar to fourth segment; third 

 segment of female triangular in cross section at least basally and with 

 pubescence similar to the second segment. Rostrum attaining the 

 middle coxae, first segment not exceeding the bucculae, second 

 segment longer than apical two together. 



Pronotum carinate laterally, humeral angles prominent, anterior 

 angles acute, front margin sinuate, not wider than the eyes, hind 

 margin produced posteriorly to the scutellum, truncate across width 

 of scutellum ; dorsum coarsely punctured except calli ; midline of meso- 

 sternimi carinate; midline of metasternum broadly and shallowly 



' Species the relationships of which are uncertain: lepineyi Lindberg; tellinni Schouteden; linearia 

 DaU&s; guadTivUtata (Signoret); rungsi Vidal; sahariaiia W agncr; straminea Vidal; vidali, new name. 



