HEMIPTBRA— HETEROPTBKA— LYG-EID^. 387 



3. CATOPAMERA gen. iiov. {koltoo, Pamera, nom. g-en.). 



Head subtriangular, roundly angulated in front, slightly broader than 

 long-, with tlie eyes as broad as the apex of the thorax ; ejes situated at the 

 base, small, globular ; antennte slender, no longer tlian the head and thorax 

 tog'ether; beyond the basal joint (which just surpasses the head) of almost 

 exactly uniform width, the joints of very nearly equal length, each from 

 four-tifths to five-sixths the length of the preceding. Thorax about half as 

 broad again as long, considerably longer than the head, tapering from the 

 posterior margin of the anterior lobe forward, the sides am])liated, base trun- 

 cate, apex more or less but broadly (Mnarginate. Legs moderately stout, 

 the middle femora not more than two-tliirds the width of the body at their 

 insertion. Abdomen very full, well rounded. 



Two species occur in the Florissant shales. 



TahU cf the species of Catopamera. 



Corium of heraelytra reaching the middle of the apical half of the abdomen 1. C. augheyi. 



Ooriam of hemelytra reaching scarcely beyond the middle of the abdomen 2. C. hradleyi. 



1. Catopamera AUGHEYI. 

 PI. 27, Pig. 7. 



Whole body of a nearly uniform dark color ; the antenna? a little 

 paler. Head smooth or finely corrugated transversely. Thorax faintly 

 punctate. Hemelytra just surpassing the extremity of the abdomen, the 

 corium reaching the middle of its apical half, fusco-fuliginous, sjjarsely but 

 distinctly punctate, the punctje showing a tendency to a linear arrange- 

 ment along the veins ; membrane clear. Abdomen with the sides slightly 

 paler than the middle. 



Length of body, S"""" ; antennae, 2.15""" ; breadth of thorax, 1.55""" ; 

 abdomen, 2.05""". 



Named in honor of Samuel Aughey, geologist of the Hayden Survey. 



Florissant. Four specimens, Nos. 1716, 2042, 9590, 120.'i3. 



2. Catopamera BRAnLEvi. 

 Pi. 26, Fig. 12. 



Whole body blackish brown, excepting the hemelytra. Antennae 

 rather stouter than in the preceding species and as dark as the body. Head 

 uniform, smoatli Tliornx verv fini'ly. f^iintly, and distantly pvinctate ; the 



