﻿STINK BUGS, GENUS MECIDEA — SAILER 485 



second, and the third segment of the female is ahnost entirely cylin- 

 drical. In both major and -pallida the third segment of the female 

 antennae is dorsally flattened, at least along the posterior third. 



Color almost identical with major; dark punctures along lateral 

 line of thorax and abdomen somewhat less numerous. Black spots 

 just below abdominal setigerous punctures, with greatest diameter 

 equal to one-twelfth length of supporting segments. Spiracles pale. 



Form narrowly elongate. 



Length: Males, 8.6-9.1 mm.; females, 9.3-10.1 mm. 



Width at humeral angles: Males, 2.2-2.6; females, 2.6-2.7. 



Antennae of male: Kclative length of segments, 35:75:80:70:60. 

 First three segments as shown on plate 48, figure 35. 



Antennae of female: Relative length of segments, 40:100:55:70:60. 

 First thi-ee segments as shown on plate 48, figure 36. 



Male genitalia: Hypop^^gium, clasper, penial plates, and penial 

 vesiculae as shown on plate 48, figures 54, 58, and plate 47, figures 

 9, 7, and 8. 



Variation. — Sixty specimens from Antigua collected at the same 

 place and date show some slight variation in size and some variation 

 in the relative lengths of the second and third antennal segments of 

 the males. In the case of one male the second segment is slightly less 

 than two-thirds as long as the third. 



Type. — Not seen. It should be in the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, 

 Stockholm. 



DiMribution. — St. Bartholomew Island (type locality): Antigua, 

 June 21, 1918. Puerto Rico, Ponce, September 2, 1948. 



Host plant. — Chloris radiata (Linnaeus) Swartz, reported by Stoner 

 (1922), who added the comment, "I believe that I have never found 

 any pentatomid in greater abundance in a limited area." 



MECmEA LUTZI, new species 



Plate 47, Figures 26-28; Plate 48, Figures 39, 40 



Resembles Mecidea pallida and M. major in size and color. Differs 

 notably from these species in having the pronotum barely constricted 

 at the middle and in having the lateral margin of the pronotum more 

 noticeably carinate. The male genitalia are characterized by the 

 elongate penisfilum which, relative to the penial plates, is twice as 

 long as in any other species of Mecidea. 



Color somewhat variable, usually testaceous with the calloused 

 midline of the pronotum and scutellum paler and the hemelytra 

 quite vitreous. Exocorial vein almost white. Inner basal angle of 

 clavus with small fuscus spot. Black spots below abdominal setigerous 

 punctures large, their diameter usually three times that of a spiracle. 

 Mid ventral line of abdomen unmarked. 



