BEM1PTEBA HETEROPTEBA < A.PSID E. 



LY<T<K'0|MS Halm. 



Tliis '_;eniis, found in the north temperate regions >,\' both the < >ld and 

 \c-\v \Vurlds. Inn more abundant in tin- latter, has not before l.t.-en found 

 ib,sil. 'I'lu- single species from the (in-eii Kiver heds which \ve place hen- 

 was t'unnerl\- rel'erred. doubtful! v. to llh vparnchronius. 



LYCTOCORIS TERREUS. 



I'l. 7, Fig. 20. 

 /:'i.//inr/irimMi.' (. rrmi s.-udd., l!nl'. I T . S. i;,-.d. Geogr. Surv. Terr., IV,770-7T1 (1878). 



A single poor specimen apparently belongs to this subfamilv. Imt i> 

 too imperfect to locate with any precision. The body is of nearl\ e.pud 

 width, Imt with a full abdomen. The head is broken, lint is as broad at has,- 

 as the tip of the thorax, has a rounded-angular front, and its surface most 

 minutelv punctulate. I 'he thorax was broadest behind, the side-, tapering 

 >li^htlv, and yx-ntlv convex, the front border broadly and shallowlv con- 

 cave, the hind border straight, more than twice as broad as the median 

 length, the surface, like that of the head, with faint distant puncture.-.. 

 Sciitcllum rather small, triangular, pointed, of equal length and breadth, 

 about as IOHL;- as the thorax, its surface like that of the thorax, but with mor-- 

 distinct punctures. Abdomen full, well rounded, and v,-r\ n-j ular. 'I 

 miiri olisciire (but perhaps extending only a little beyond the .sciitellnm 



Length of body, I""": of head, 0.6 mm ; of thorax, ()C ...... ; of -.cutellum, 



0.7""": lir.-a.hh of head, 11"'": of thorax. 1..Y"" 1 ; of abdomen. _' 1 



lireeii Kiver, \\'\omin^-. ( )ne sp.-cimen, \,i. ll'.ij. 



Family CAPSID^G Westwood. 



\Vith the exception of a Miris, reported over half a centiirx ago from 

 Ai\ and never vet described, all the Kuropeau fossils of this -roU|> known 

 up to the present time are from amber. Thu> ( rravenhorst loii^- a-o referred 

 half a dozen species I'rom amber to Miri> and < 'ap-n-. and (iermar later 

 de-cribed as manv a> thirteen species of l'h\ tOCOris from the same d<-p,. 

 The-M- LTeiiei-a were then a^i'd in a tar broader >en>e than now. and the 

 s of ( iermar >ho\v at once that several genera are in be found amonir 



