﻿STINK BUGS, GENUS MECIDEA — SAILER 495 



description of ingramsi "11:32:23:25:21." First three segments as 

 shown on plate 48, figure 42. 



Male genitalia: Penial plates and penial vesiculae as shown by 

 plate 47, figures 24, 23, and 25. 



Variation: Specimens from Kenya, Arabia, and southern India are 

 quite uniform in size and color; however, two male specimens from 

 French Somaliland are noticeably smaller and tend to be darker. 

 China, in his description of Mecidea ingramsi, noted that a female 

 specimen from Wadi Maseila, Hadhramaut, was much smaller than 

 the specimen that he made the type of the species. The single speci- 

 men from India has the antennal segments generally shorter than the 

 females from Arabia; however, the ratio of their lengths does not 

 vary significantly and the other characteristics of the antennae are 

 quite similar. 



Types. — Of pallidissima, presumed to be in the Zoological Museum 

 at Copenhagen; of ingramsi, in the British Museum. 



Distribution.- — ^Eritrea: Recorded by Jensen-Haarup. Hadhra- 

 maut: Recorded as M. ingramsi by China from specimens collected 

 in November and December. 



Material examined: Kenya: Kula, July 7, 1935. French Somali- 

 land: Djibouti, August 31, 1926. Arabia: Jidda, March 14 and 17, 

 1936; Buriam, May 20, 1936. India: "South India." 



From these records it appears that M. pallidissima ranges from the 

 mountainous region of northern Kenya, across the Arabian peninsula, 

 and as far east as southern India. With so few records available it 

 is not possible to construct a clear picture of distribution for the 

 species and additional specimens from India are needed in order to 

 confirm the presence of pallidissima in that country. 



MECIDEA PAMPEANA, new species 



Plate 47, Figubes 16-18; Plate 48, Figures 43-46, 55, 56 



Mecidea longula, Berg, Hemiptera Argentina enumeravit speciesque novas 

 descripsit C. Berg, p. 37, 1879. — Pennington, Lista de la Hemipteros Hetcr- 

 opteros Republica de la Argentina, Primera Parte, Pentatomoideo-Coroidea, 

 p. 7, 1921 (a privately published work). — Piran, Acta Zool. Lilloana, vol. 5, 

 p. 12, 1948. 



Most closely alHed to Mecidea minor of North America and M. 

 kristenseni of Africa, but readily distinguished from the former by the 

 absence of the tubercle on the median line of the ventroposterior 

 surface of the male genital segment and from the latter by the absence 

 of black markings along the median ventral line of the abdomen of 

 both sexes. 



Color variable; in darkest specimens the pronotum shows from 

 obscure longitudinal dark bands. Calloused median line of pronotum 

 and scutellum continuous. Exocorial vein noticeably paler tha" 



