BEMIPTBBA HBTEKOPTBEA LTG^BIDJ 383 



llio s; ..... time taper r;ijiii!l\-: tin- -iirface .-mor.th The li<-mcl\ IIM are li. 

 colored, excepting |',, r :m equal, imt \er\ liroad. costal thickening of a | 



taceous color, \\Mrh appears to be characteristic. The abdomen seems to 



Ordinarily fuller in tin- apical half than in I'. communi-. 

 Length, 3.4 ...... : Im-adth. 1 ."."""; length of cori inn, 1.75 



Florissant. Five specimens, Nos. 5952, fi:;ti7, 6394, : 62, 9937 



.".. I'lMiTol'llirs LANGUKNS. 

 IM. 23, Fif,'. 23. 



A single specimen ha- been separated from the others on account i.f 



certain characteristics which appear to lie peculiar; unfortunately the 

 appendages ,,)' the he;nl are not preserved, hut the h.-ad itself apjiears to lie 

 longer and more produced than in cither of the other species, ,-md the tho- 

 rax of the same form as in 1'. communis, .tapering as rapidly and with rec- 

 tilinear sides, hut it is perhaps a little shorter than in I', cmimiuni- and its 

 surface a little less smooth. The hemelytra are clear throughout, and 

 >ho\v lines of punctures .-don- the course of the principal veins which can 

 not lie made out in either of the other >pi. cii-s. The abdomen has the form 

 of that of 1'. COStali 



Lenuth, .", f '" : l.readth, 1.5"""; length of corium, 1.5""". 



Florissant. ( hie specimen, No. (JL'.'i! 1 



Subfamily MYODOCHINA Stal. 

 As ha- been .-fated al>o\c. the va-t majoritv of the American |o>-il 



L\ -:eida' Keloii-- to tin- present irroup. A remarkable feature to he noticed 



in them not c ml. racing all the species, hut certainK nio.-t of them i> the 

 lirevity of the anteinur. rarelv half as long a- the Imdy, and usually much 

 slior.er than that. The\ are extraordinary, too, tor the \er\ lar-v prop. >r- 

 tion v.-hich can not In- referred to existing genera, and for their general 

 mlil.nice as 8 uhole In subtropical types. The memlier- of the tir-t 

 j mil p. tin- M \ odocharia. >eem to furm, with few exception-, a t\pe apart. 

 in \\ Inch the po-tcrior lo lie of the tlmrax does not lima den from liehind t'..r 

 ward, heiii- as a whole narrower, or at lea-t no l.roadcr. than the anterior 

 lulie \'. bell the latter has ampliated >ide-, the op]m>ite lirill-' ordinarily the 

 iii modem l\pes. \\'ith a -in-le except! ....... ' t\\o tlie\ all come from 



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