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Form rather broadly elongate. Pronotum only slightly constricted 

 near middle, the lateral margins carinate and almost serrate along their 

 anterior third. Abdomen with lateral striate areas continuous along 

 first through fourth and evanescent on fifth and sixth visible segments. 



Length: Males, 10.0-11.0 mm.; females, 11.3-11.5 mm. 



Width at humeral angles: Males, 3.2-3.4 mm. ; females, 3.4-3.5 mm. 



Antennae of male (holotype specimen): Relative lengths of segments, 

 40:90:75:80:70. First three segments as shown on plate 48, figure 39. 



Antennae of female (allotype specimen): Relative lengths of segments, 

 45:115:65:85:70. First tlu-ee segments as shown on plate 48, figure 40. 



Male genitalia: Penial plates, penial vesiculae, and penisfilum as 

 shown on plate 47, figures 26, 27, and 28. 



Variation. — There is some variation in color and the degree to which 

 the pronotal margin is carinate. The Kenya specimens tend to be 

 darker and the darkest one has four well-marked longitudinal dark 

 bands on the pronotum and a fuscus spot at the inner apical angle of 

 the corium. Most of the punctures on the corium are also fuscous. 



Types. — Holotype, male, Djamba, Belgian Congo, altitude 1,700- 

 1,800 feet, August 9, 1929, H. H. Curtiss (J. C. Lutz collection). 

 Allotype, same data (retained for U.S.N. M. collection, No. 609824). 



Paratypes: 1 9, same data; 2 cf, 2 9, Athi River Crossing, 16 

 miles N. N. E. of Kibwezi, Kenya, July 25, 1934, J. A. G. Rehn 

 (A.N.S.P.), 1 cf and 1 9 retained for U.S.N.M. collection; 1 9, 

 Makinda, Kenya, April 5 to 7, 1911, S. A. Neave (B. M.). 



Distribution. — Since the two Kenya localities are situated within 

 about 10 miles of each other, the species is in effect known from only 

 two widely separated localities in Equatorial Africa. Djamba (also 

 spelled Djumbwi) is located in the District of Stanleyville about 160 

 miles south of the boundary of French Equatorial Africa. The Kenya 

 localities are situated about halfway between Nairobi and the port 

 city of Mombasa. Rehn described (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 88, p. 9, 1936) the country near Kibwezi, Kenya as "dense thorn- 

 bush country, with scattered taller boabab, euphorbia, and acacia 

 trees." The northern part of the Belgian Congo including Djamba 

 is largely covered by tall grass savanna. 



I take pleasure in naming this species for John C. Lutz. The first 

 examples of this species to be encountered were found in his extensive 

 private collection of Heteroptera. 



MECIDEA MAJOR, new species 



Figure 89; Plate 47, Figures 10-12; Plate 48, Figures 33, 34, 52, 59 



Mecidea longula [not Stil] Uhler, List of Hemiptera of region west of the Missis- 

 sippi River, including those collected during the Hayden Explorations of 

 1873. Bull. U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 269-361, 1876 

 (seep. 17of extract under above title); Check list of the Hemiptera Heterop- 



