﻿STINK BUGS, GENUS MECIDEA — SAILER 501 



MECIDEA STRAMINEA Vldal 



Mecidea straminea Vidal, Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Maroc, vol. 48, pp. 118-119, 1949. 



Described by Vidal as being near Mecidea lejpineyi (Vidal not 

 Lindberg) but darker in color and with different comparative lengths 

 of the second and third antennal segments. 



According to Vidal the comparative lengths of antennal segments 

 2, 3, 4 and 5 are as 77 : 39 : 50 : 45. 



Length: 10 mm. 



Described from a female specimen collected at Fort Trinquet, 

 Mauritania, French West Africa, November 1942, by Ch. Kungs. 



Type. — In I'lnstitut Scientiiique Cheriiien, Rabat, Morocco. 



MECIDEA TELUNn Schouteden 



Mecidea tellinii Schouteden, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belgiquc, vol. 49, p. 7, 1905. — 

 Bergkoth, Mem. Soc. Ent. Belgique, vol. 15, p. 152, 1908. 



This species was described from two male specimens collected in 

 Eritrea. Schouteden characterized the species as more robust than 

 Mecidea pallida and M. prolixa. This comparison is unfortunate 

 since prolixa is the smallest and least robust of the genus, while of the 

 species known to me pallida is the largest and most robust. The 

 antennae (male) are described as having the second and third segments 

 subequal in length. Tliis agrees with Dallas' description of linearis 

 and suggests that M. tellinii might be a synonym of that species. 

 Characters of size and color, however, seem to indicate that the species 

 are different. Schouteden states that his specimens were 10.25 mm. 

 long and 3.75 mm. ^\ade across the pronotum. Tliis would make 

 tellini the least elongate species in the genus. 



Types. — The type specimens are beUeved to be in Schouteden's 

 private collection. 



MECIDEA VIDALI, new name 



Mecidea lepineyi Vidal, Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Maroc, vol. 48, p. 119, 1949 (pre- 

 occupied by M. lepineyi Lindberg, Not. Ent., vol. 18, ser. 3, pp. 85, 87, 

 fig. Ic, 1938). 



Described by Vidal as paler but of the same shape as rungsi, the 

 punctation of the head, scutellum, and hemelytra as concolorous and 

 hardly visible, and the antennae as bearing brown punctures. 



The comparative lengths of antennal segments 2, 3, 4, and 5 were 

 described as 40 : 70 : 56 : 49. 



Length: 9 mm. 



Described from a male collected August 30, 1941, by Lepiney, 

 Sauvage, and Rungs. 



Type. — In I'lnstitut Scientifique, Cheriiien, Rabat, Morocco. 



