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Length: Male, 9.6 mm; width at the humeral angles, 2.5 mm; 

 female, 11.9 mm; width at the humeral angles, 3.2 mm. 



Antennae of male: Relative length of segments 30:85:60:80:65. 

 First three segments as shown on plate 48, figure 31. 



Antennae of female: Relative length of segments, 40:110:55: 

 lost:lost. First three segments as shown on plate 48, figure 32. 



Male genitalia: Penial vesiculae and penial lobes as shown on 

 plate 47, figures 1,2, and 3. 



Variation. — The juga of one female specimen overlap slightly at 

 their apices, while those of the male specimen are divergent. 



Type. — In the British Museum. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Distant (1902) from Bombay and 

 Poona. One specimen from each of these localities was available, 

 whUe the third specimen, a male, was collected at Hoshangabad, 

 Central Provinces, India. 



Host plants. — None has been recorded. 



MECIDEA KRISTENSENI Jensen-Haarup 



Plate 47, Figure 19; Plate 48, Figures 50, 51 



Mecidea kristenseni Jensen-Haarup, Ent. Meddel., vol. 14, pt. 1, pp. 8, 9, fig. 8b, 

 1922.— LiNDBERG, Not. Ent., vol. 18, pt. 3, pp. 85-86, 1938. 



Closely related to Mecidea prolixa but a little larger and more robust 

 in appearance and with the posterior lobe of the pronotum more con- 

 vex, clearly distinguished by the shape of the lateral penial vesiculae. 

 The color pattern sets the species apart from all other species of 

 Mecidea with the exception of unusually dark specimens of prolixa. 



The characteristic color was noted by Jensen-Haarup and described 

 as follows: "Body wing covers, thi-ee innermost joints of antennae 

 and legs partially more or less densely covered with blackish punctures, 

 which where condensed, form the following dark, longitudinal stripes: 

 two on head, four on pronotum and two on scutellum." The brownish 

 rose-red color that Jensen-Haarup noted as infusing the inner part of 

 the corium is not present in any of the eight specimens available for 

 study. The linear black spots on the midventral line of the abdomen 

 are more pronounced than in either M. prolixa or M. minor and in 

 several specimens spots are present on each of the last five abdominal 

 segments. The black spots below the setigerous punctures are small, 

 seldom exceeding the diameter of a spiracle. The black vittae on the 

 dorsum of the abdomen are each as broad as the pale intervening area. 



Length: Male, 8.7 mm; female, 9.5 mm. 



Width at humeral angles: Male, 2.4 mm.; female, 2.8 mm. 



Antennae of male: Relative length of segments, 35:60:90:75:65. 

 The last three segments as shown on plate 48, figiu-e 50. 



Antennae of female: Relative length of segments, 40:95:70:80:70. 

 The last three segments as shown on plate 48, figure 51. 



