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General Catalogue or the Hemiptera 
Majellana—Messeis—Mahuna—Messoides 
1914 M[ajella ] majella Melichar, Notes Leyden Mus. 36:178. [Compar- *\ustralia 2 
ative note.] 2 
philippina Melichar 
1914 Majella philippina Melichar, Philippine Jour. Sci. 9: 177. [n. sp.]’ Luzon 1 
Genus MESSEIS Stal 
Haplotype Messeis fuscovaria [n. sp.] 1862 Stal, Handl. Svenska Vet. 
Akad. 3 (6): 66. 
Haplotype Messeis fuscovaria 1938 Metcalf, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 
Harvard Coll. 82: 372. 
Messeis 1862 Stal, Handl. Svenska Vet. Akad. 3 (6): 66. [gen. n.] 
1866 Stal, Hemiptera Africana 4: 182. [Key.] 
1873 Marschall, Nomenclator Zoologicus 1873: 372. [Listed.] 
1879 White, Ent. Monthly Mag. 15: 217. [Comparative note.] 
1882 Scudder, Bull. United States Nat. Mus. 19: 194. [Listed.] 
1931 Schulze, Kukenthal and Heider, Nomenclator Animalium 3 (15): 2052. [Listed.] 
1938 Metcalf, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll. 82: 368. [Key.] :372. [De¬ 
scribed.] 
1940 Neave, Nomenclator Zoologicus 3: 123. [Listed.] 
asper Fowler 
1904 Plectoderes asper Fowler, Biologia Centrali-Americana 1: 110; PI. Panama 1 
11, Figs. 25, 25a. [n. sp., illustrated.] 1 
1910 [Catonia aspera] Van Duzee, Canadian Ent. 42: 264. Equals [ Plectoderes ] asper. 
1938 Messeis asper Metcalf, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll. 82: 373; Pis. 7, 16, 22. 
[Notes, illustrated.] 1 Equals Plectoderes asper Fowl. 
fuscovaria Stal 
1862 Messeis fuscovaria Stal, Handl. Svenska Vet. Akad. 3 (6): 66. [n. Rio de Janeiro 1 
sp.] 1 
Genus MAHUNA Distant 
Orthotype Mahuna conspersa [n. sp.] 1907 Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (7) 19: 289. 
Mahuna 1907 Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 19: 289. [gen. n.] 
1912 Waterhouse, Index Zoologicus No. II 1912: 164. [Listed.] 
1931 Schulze, Kukenthal and Heider, Nomenclator Animalium 3 (15): 1955. 
[Listed.] 
1940 Neave, Nomenclator Zoologicus 3: 28. [Listed.] 
conspersa Distant 
1907 Mahuna conspersa Distant, Ann.. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 19: 290. Queensland 1 
[n. sp.] 1 
1907 Mahuna conspersa Kirkaldy, Bull. Hawaiian Sugar PI. Assoc. Div. Ent. 3: 121. 
[Listed.] 1 
Genus MESSOIDES Metcalf 
Orthotype Messoides uniformis [n. sp.] 1938 Metcalf, Bull. Mus. Comp. 
Zool. Harvard Coll. 82: 373. 
