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Mesira rugiventris (Champion) 



Brachyrhynchus rugiventris Champion, 1898, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia 

 Central!- Americana, vol. 47 (Rhynchota, Hemiptera-Heteroptera, vol. 2), p. 

 101. 



Mezira rugiventris Usinger, 1936, Ann. Ent. Soc. America, vol. 29, t). 510. 



New records. — Three males and two females, Satipo, Peru, P. 

 Paprocky collector, August 1940, Drake Collection (USNM). 

 Known heretofore from Mexico and Guatemala. 



Mezira luteonotata, new species 



Figures 3, 4 



Female. — Elongate, covered with setigerous granulation; hairs 

 short, thin, curled. Lateral borders of abdomen widely rounded. 



Head slightly shorter than width across eyes (27:29). Anterior 

 process very robust, long, wide, parallel-sided, rounded anteriorly, 

 slightly cut out in middle at tip, slightly surpassing apex of first 

 antennal segment. Antenniferous tubercles dentiform, narrow, rather 

 blunt at tip, reaching to basal third of first antennal segment. Eyes 

 exserted. Postocular tubercles small, dentiform, acute, reaching to 

 outer border of eyes. Infraocular cai'inae low, granulate. Vertex 

 with V-formed, setigerous granulation. Antennae slender, short, less 

 than twice as long as head ; proportions of antennal segments 11:9:11:? 

 (segment IV missing). Rostrum short, not reaching hind border of 

 rostral groove. 



Pronotmn less than half as long as width across humeri (28:60); 

 collum slender, finely granulate, slightly cut out in middle. Anterior 

 angles terminating in small tubercles. Anterolateral angles rec- 

 tangularly expanded, with slightly convex sides, blunt at tip, not 

 produced beyond colhim or lateral notch. Lateral borders of fore- 

 lobe parallel to each other; foredisc convex, sloping laterally, provided 

 with four (2-1-2) granulate ridges; outer ridges lower than inner, 

 indistinct. Lateral borders of hind lobe parallel to each other, 

 rounded, convergent anteriorly. Hind border almost straight, only 

 rounded posterior angles slightly protruded backwai'd. Hind disc 

 with dense setigerous granulation. 



Scutellum shorter than wide at base (27:32); all exterior borders 

 rimmed, with small yellow tubercles at basal angles; median ridge 

 thin and low; disc densely granulate. 



Hemelytra not reaching to foreborder of tergum VII. Apical angle 

 of corium acute, apical margin convex, and slightly excavated in- 

 teriorly. 



Abdomen elongate ovate, longer than wide (97:70), maxhnal 

 width across segment IV; lateral borders widely rounded; postero- 

 exterior angles of connexiva not protruding; those of connexivum 



