HEMIPTERA— I1ETEROPTERA-VELI1D.E. 349 



1. PAL^OVELIA gen. nov. {TraXato?, Velia, nom. gen.). 



Head much as in Microvelia, small, subtriang-ular, with rounded angles, 

 a little broader than long, plunged to the eyes in the roundly emarginate 

 prothorax, and continuing the curve of its rapidly narrowing sides, the part 

 in front of the eyes a little shorter than they. Thorax pentagonal, the sides 

 subequal, the lateral faces straight, the front concave, the posterior faces 

 still more concave but a little shorter than the others, the median posterior 

 process not reaching far back, rather acute. Body widest at the posterior 

 sides of the thorax, the abdomen tapering but little, in its posterior third 

 roundly narrowing, terminating in a bifid plate, the posterior part of the 

 abdomen bluntly conical, and the entire body having a long ovate shape. 

 Hind legs very short, only reaching the tip of the abdomen, the femora and 

 tibije of nearly equal length, the tarsi longer than either, the tibije and first 

 tarsal joint both armed at the tip with prominent delicate spines, the tarsi 

 three-jointed. 



A single species is known. 



Pal.s;ovelia spinosa. 

 PI. 22, Fig. 13. 



The single specimen appears to be seen on the ventral surface only, 

 showing a pale gray abdomen, while all the other parts are black; the 

 thorax and base of abdomen are clothed not very densely with exceedingly 

 fine, short, dark hairs directed laterally outward, while beyond, an obscure 

 dottinsT on the abdomen would seem to indicate similar but erect hairs. The 

 legs are pretty thickly beset with fine, stiff hairs, the apical spines of the 

 tibia and first tarsal joint about as long as the width of the joint, the tibise 

 also with an apical or preapical spur fully twice as long. 



Length of body, 3.65'""'; breadth, LSS-"-" ; length of hind femur, O.S-"-" ; 

 tibia, 0.8""" ; tarsi, 1.2""". 



Florissant. One specimen. No. 13325. 



2. STENOVELIA gen. nov. (gt£v6';,'^ Velia, nom. gen.) 



Body robust, blunt oval. Head narrow but not very small, rounded 

 subquadrate, about half as large as the pronotum, but rather longer than it, the 



' The name is given in allusion to the confined surroundings of this genus of Veliid», not to any 

 slenderness of form . 



