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thorax to the head ; besides this the disk of the thorax is darker, leaving 

 of a lighter color nearly the whole anterior lobe and the outer posterior 

 angles within the black stripe, and the whole thorax is rather distantly and 

 heavily punctate with black ; the scutellum is also light colored, narrowly 

 margined with blackish on all sides, but heavily in the lateral angles. The 

 hemelytra have the corium dusky and the membrane fuliginous, the former 

 with the veins punctate in black. Legs pale and uniform, except that the 

 tips of the tibia; and the tarsi are dusky ; these are also clothed with exces- 

 sively fine hairs. 



Length of body, 10.15 mm ; breadth of thorax ia front, 1.08 mm ; at great- 

 est, 1.75 mm ; of abdomen, 2.25 mm ; length of antenna;, 5.6 mm ; their apical 

 joint, 1.55 ram ; fore femora, 2.65 mm ; middle femora, 2.75 ram ; hind femora, 

 3.4 mm ; hind tibia;, 4.45'"' 11 ; tarsi, 1.45 mm ; first tarsal joint, 0.9 mm . 



Florissant. One specimen, No. 12469. 



Subfamily SAICINA Stal. 



The species described below is the only one of this subfamily which 

 has ever been recognized in a fossil state. 



TAGALODES gen. nov. (Tagalis, nom. gen.). 



Body elongated, of nearly uniform width. Head, including the eyes, 

 considerably broader than long, advanced considerably and rather broadly 

 in front of the eyes ; no ocelli ; rostrum considerably longer than the head, 

 the basal joint longer than the two subequal apical joints. Thorax rapidly 

 tapering in front, the head separated from it by a short constricted neck, 

 broadest posteriorly and slightly broader than the abdomen, and here angu- 

 late, the angle not produced laterally as a spine ; scutellum triangular, of 

 about equal length and breadth, the posterior angle more acute than the 

 others by the slight emargination of the sides, but not produced into a spine 

 nor even pointed. Legs long and slender, unarmed, the femora and tibia? 

 of nearly equal length, those of the hin'd legs much longer than the others, 

 all the tarsi very short, very slender, cylindrical, armed with a pair of claws. 



A single species is known. 



Allied to Tagalis Stal, from which it differs in the relative brevity of 

 the thorax and the absence of any median constriction, the simple angular 

 posterior termination of the scutellum, the absence of spinulation on the fore 



