﻿STINK BUGS, GENUS MECIDEA — SAILER 481 



sulcate. Osteolar canal extending nearly to the dorsoanterior angle 

 of the priimose area. Femora unarmed, tibiae sulcate. Hemclytra 

 pale to straw colored, vitreous; corium and clavus more or less regu- 

 larly punctured, punctures often rufescent, exocorium usually paler 

 than corium and exocorial vein, almost straight, raised and con- 

 spicuously pale. 



Abdomen with striate area on both sides, starting on the first appar- 

 ent segment at base of the hind coxa and continuing across segments 

 2 and 3, evanescent on 4; second segment convex medially. Dorsum 

 of abdomen with a dark vitta on each side just inside the connexivum. 

 Ventrally each segment usually has a black spot located on each side 

 around the innermost setigerous puncture (trichobothria). Genital 

 segment of the male with cup dorsoventrally compressed, deeply 

 concave, opening dorsoposteriorly; inferior ridge forming posterior 

 margin, deeply sinuate in ventral view with a notch at median line; 

 proctiger tubular, membranous except basally; claspers of the single- 

 armed type; superior ridge reduced; superior carinae present as an 

 elongate black tuberculate process opposite apices of claspers. Geni- 

 tal plates of female loosely contiguous at apices, gi-adually divergent 

 basally along median line. Subgenital plates narrowly rounded 

 apically, extending slightly beyond the tergal plate. Apices of 

 lateral plates bluntly acuminate, barely produced beyond posterior 

 margin of tergal plate. Female genitalia without effective diagnostic 

 value. 



MECIDEA INDICA Dallas 



Plate 47, Figures 1-3; Plate 48, Figures 31, 32 



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

 collection of the British Museum, vol. 1, p. 139, pi. 3, fig. 3, 1851. — StAl, 

 Ofv. Vet. Akad. Forhandl., vol. 13, pt. 3, p. 57, 1856.— Walker, Catalogue 

 of the specimens of heteropterous Hemiptera (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) in 

 the collection of the British Museum, pt. 1, p. 179, 1867; Enum. Hemip., 

 vol. 5, p. 38, 1876. — Atkinson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 56, pp. 201-202, 

 1887. — Lethierry and Severin, Catalogue g^n^ral des H^miptferes, vol. 1, 

 H6t6roptferes, Pentatomidae, p. 92, 1893. — Distant, Fauna of British India, 

 Rhynchota, vol. 1, pp. 140-141, 1902. — Kirkaldt, A catalogue of the Hemip- 

 tera (Heteroptera) , vol. 1, Cimicidae, p. 202, 1909. — V.^n Duzee, Catalogue 

 of the Hemiptera of North America, p. 29, 1917. — Jensen-Haarup, Ent. 

 Meddel., vol. 14, pt. 1, p. 7, 1922.— China, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 10, 

 vol. 17, p. 97, 1936. 



Most clearly related to Mecidea pallida, but also near M. major. 

 Only three specimens have been available for tliis study, but it would 

 appear that apart from the penial plates and slightly less carinate 

 lateral margin of the pronotum there is little that will separate indica 

 from major, and it is even more difficult to distinguish the species from 

 pallida. Study of additional specimens of these two species may show 

 that pallida and major are synonyms of indica. 



