NOTES ON ARADIDAE, III — KORMILEV 249 



Remarks. — This species is allied to Cinyphus squalidus Champion; 

 it can be separated from the latter by the following characteristics: 

 antenniferous tubercles acute and divergent; second and fourth 

 antennal segments equal in length; lateral margins of abdomen evenly 

 rounded (subangular posteriorly in C. squalidus) . 



Genus Santaremia Kormilev 



Santaremia Kormilev, 1960, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 68, p. 44. 

 Santaremia robusta Kormilev 



Santaremia robusta Kormilev, 1960, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 68, p. 45, 

 figs. 6-7. 



Female. — Slightly larger than male but of same color and general 

 aspect. Lobes of VIII (paratergites) short, triangular, reaching to 

 middle of IX, latter truncate posteriorly. Spiracles II to VI ventral, 

 placed far from lateral border, VII also ventral but situated a little 

 nearer to outer margin; VIII lateral and visible from above. 



Measurements. — Head shorter than wide across eyes (24:27); pro- 

 portions of antennal segments 16:10: ? (last two segments missing); 

 pronotum half as long as wide across humeri (30:(42):60); scutellum 

 shorter than width at base (25:32); abdomen longer than wide (75:71). 



Length 7.85 mm. Width of pronotmn 3.00 mm. Width of 

 abdomen 3.55 mm. 



Allotype. — Female, Para, Brazil, in Drake collection (USNM). 



Genus Mezira Amyot and Serville 



Brachyrhynchiis Laporte, in Gu^rin, Mag. Zool., 1833, vol. 2, p. 54 (preoccupied). 

 Mezira Amyot and Serville, 1843, Histoire naturelle des insectes, H^mipt^res, 



p. 305. 

 Dusius Bergroth, 1894, Ent. Tidscr., vol. 15, p. 104. 



Mezira is the largest genus in the subfamily Mezirinae, and is 

 worldwide in distribution with the exception of colder areas. In 

 1959 Usinger and Matsuda removed from Mezira many species 

 previously assigned therein and created for them the new genera 

 Daulocoris, Strigocoris, and Oroessa. They also resurrected the genus 

 Arictus StM, previously synonymized with Mezira, and left 106 

 species in the genus Mezira. In its present sense, after revision, the 

 genus Mezira is still too heterogeneous, for the entire complex of the 

 so-called "membranacea group" probably should form a separate 

 genus ; it is dubious that the American and African species of the genus 

 Mezira could remain in the same genus. At the present time about 

 half of all species classified in Mezira belong to the Neotropical Region. 



