IIK.MIPTKKA IIKTKKOITKKA-VKI.III'.]:. 



1. PAL^EOVELIA IM-H. n<>\. (/TAa7--. Yelia, nom. gen.). 



1 1 1 ':ul 11 nidi ;is in Microvelia, -mull. subtriangular, with rounded angle-. 

 a little broader than long, plunged to the eyes in the roundly emarginate 

 prothorax, and continuing the curve of its rapidly narrowing -ide>. tin- part 

 in tr<mt of the eyes a little shorter than they. Thorax pentagonal. tin- sides 

 snbeijii;d, tin- Literal faces straight, the front concave, the posterior fa<-> - 

 still more concave but a little shorter than the others, the median posterior 

 process not reaching far back, rather acute. Body widest at the posterior 

 sides of the thorax, the abdomen tapering but little, in its posterior third 

 roundly narrowing, terminating in a bifid plate, the posterior part of the 

 abdomen bluntly conical, and the entire body having a long ovate shape. 

 Hind legs verv short, only reaching the tip of the abdomen, the femora and 

 til>i;u of nearly equal length, the tarsi longer than either, the tibia- and lirM 

 tarsal joint both armed at the tip with prominent delicate spines, the tar>i 

 three-jointed. 



A single species is known. 



PAL^OVELTA SPINOSA. 

 PI. 22, Fig. 13. 



The single specimen appears to be seen on the ventral surface <mly, 

 showing a pale gray abdomen, while all the other parts an- black; the 

 thorax and base of abdomen are clothed not very denselv with exceedingly 

 tine, short, dark hairs directed laterally outward, while beyond, an obscure 

 dotting on the abdomen would seem to indicate similar hut erect hairs. The 

 le_x are pretty thickly beset with line, still' hairs, the apical spines of tin 

 tibia and first tar>al joint about as IOIIL;' as the width of the joint, tin- tibia 

 also with an apical or preapical spur fully twice as long. 



Length of body, 3.65 mm ; breadth, 1.85 mm ; length of hind femur, o.x"""; 

 tibia, 0.8 ...... ; tarsi, l. 



Florissant. < hie specimen, No. 13325. 



2. STKNnYKUA gen nov. (arei-o?, 1 Velia, nom. gen.) 



Body robust, blunl oval. I b-ad narrow Itut not \ery<niall, rounded 

 siilnpiadrate, about halt'as lar-j-i- as the proiiotmn, lint rather lou L r,. r than it, the 



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