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femora, and the c}liiuli-ical cliaracter of the tarsal joints. Tagalis is known 

 to me only by Stal's description. 



Tagalodes inermis. 

 PI. 26, Fig. 15. 



A single specimen Is preserved, seen on a dorsal view with the wings 

 of one side lost, of the other partially expanded. The head and thorax are 

 very dark and uniform, the hemelytra with the corium, like the abdomen, 

 dark testaceous, the membrane pale fuliginous ; the veins of the membrane 

 show a pair of very elongated parallel loops running more than half way to 

 the margin, the upper the broader and more distinct (tlie lower not shown on 

 the plate). Lateral edges of the scutellum slightly marginate, the scutellum 

 itself with faint transverse sulcations ; surface of the thorax slightly and 

 broadly rugulose. Legs pale testaceous, the femora duskier toward the apex. 



Length of body, 11.75'"'"; breadth, 3.1™™; length of liemelytra, 7'"'"; 

 middle femora, 4™'" ; tibias, 4""" ; tarsi, l'""' ; hind tibiae, 5.8™". 



Florissant. One specimen. No. 2696. 



Family TINGIDID^E Fieber. 



Nearly all the principal European Tertiary deposits have furnished a 

 single, but only a single, species of this fixmily of delicate Hemi^jtera. That 

 at Aix is only known as yet by Serres's reference to a species of Tingis, 

 which he compares to T, cardui, now placed in Phyllontocheila. Novak 

 figures a species of Monantliia from Krottensee, Heer a very obscure Tingis 

 from Radoboj, and a species from Oeningen, well marked with long antennye, 

 in one place as a Tingis, in another as a Monantliia, which is more correctly 

 referable to the latter ; but what is of greater interest is an amber species 

 referred to Tingis by Germar which belongs to the genus Eotingis estab- 

 lished below for a Florissant species, with exceptionally long antennae. A 

 species of Monanthia also occurs at Florissant, apparently nearly related 

 to the Oeningen form but with stouter antenna3, and an obscure form from 

 the same locality is probably referable to Piesma. 



PIESMA St. Fargeau and Serville. 



No fossils have heretofore been referred to this genus., which forms a 

 group apart among the Tingidlde, and wliich is better known in the Old 



