!II..MII'Ti:i; \ - HBTBEOPTEBA TING1DID ! . 



femora, and the c\-liii(lric;il ch;i racter if the tarsal joints. Taualis i.- kim\\ii 

 to me niilv by St.-il's description. 



TAGALOUKS IM.KMIS. 

 PI. lit;, Fitf. 15. 



.\ single specimen is preserved, seen mi :i ilursal vir\v \vitli tin- w 

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



vcr\- dark and unit'onn, tin- hnncl\ tra \\ith tlie corium, like the abdomen, 

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

 sho\v a pair of very elongated parallel loops running more than half wav to 

 the margin, the uppei- the liroader ami more distinct (the lower not >liown on 

 the plate i. 1/ihM al edges of the scntelluin sli^hth' nia ruinate, thescutellum 

 it-elf with faint transverse siileation- ; surface of the thorax slightly and 

 liroadl v n 1^-11 lose. Le^-s pale testaceous, the femora duskier toward the a 



Length of l.ody, 11.7.") '; l.readth, :).r" IU ; K-ngth of heinelytra, 7 . 



niiil.lle femora, t : ; tihi;e, 4"""; tarsi, 1"""; hind tibiae, ". 



Florissant. < hie specimen. \o. L'fJ'.iii. 



Family TINGIDIDyE Fieber. 



N'earlv all the principal Kuropcan Tertiary deposits have furnished a 



single, I mt only a single, species of this family of delicate Hemiptera. That 



at Ai\ is only known as \-et 1>\ Serre-'s reference ' a species of i'i: 



which he compares to T cardni. now placed in l'h\ llontocheila. N'o\-;ik 

 ti^ures a species of M niaiitliia I'rom K rotten-, c, Heera ver\- uK-cur Tin^is 

 from KadoKoj, and a ,-pecies I'm in ( )eiiingfii, well marked with long antenna'. 

 in one place as a Tin^is, in another as a Monanthia, which is more correctly 

 n-feralile to the latter; lint wlnt i- of greater interest i- an anilier 

 referreil to 'I'iii'jis li\ (lerinar which lielon-- to the geim- F.otin-: 



l).-li>w fora Florid-ant species, with exceptionally long antennae. A 



of Monanthia also occurs at l''loris-ani. apparent^ in-arl\- related 

 to the ( (eiiin^en form hut with stouter antenii:c, and an obscure form from 

 the -,ame locality i- prohablv reteralile to I'iesina. 



I'l i:sM.\ St Far--eau and Serville. 



\ofo.--ils ha\e lleretot'ol'e I ie, M| 1'el el'l'ed (o this 



mp apart among the Tingididae, and which is better known in the ( ild 



