430 TERTIARY INSECTS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



ORTHEIOCOEISA LONGIPES. 



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PI. 26, Fig. 1. 



A single remarkably well preserved specimen lies upon its side on a 

 very fragile sheet of shale. The general color is a dark, sometimes, and 

 especially on the less solid parts, a light, testaceous. The head seems to be 

 smooth except for here and there a small granule ; the rostrum shows only 

 the central black needle which reaches the mesostethium. The thorax is 

 rather heavily and pretty closely punctate, and the coriura of the hemelytra 

 similarly punctate in serial rows along the course of the veins. The state 

 of preservation is poorer posteriorly, so that the length of the abdomen 

 can not be accurately told, but it appears to extend beyond the reach of the 

 hind femora. 



Length of body (partly estimated), Il mm ; basal joint of antenna?, 2 mm ; 

 hind femora, 4.75 mm . 



Florissant. One specimen, No. 8604. 



Subfamily PSEUDOPHLCEINA Stal. 



This rather limited subfamily is much better developed in the Old than 

 the New AV.orld. In the United States but a couple of genera occur, each 

 with a single species, and, in the Biologia Centrali Americana, Distant 

 records but three genera, each with a single species. Yet, although never 

 detected in the European rocks, Florissant yields an extinct genus allied to 

 one found in Central America, and it is well represented there, as will be 

 seen immediately below. 



HEERIA gen. nov. 



Allied to Arenocoris but with second and third antennal joints subequal. 

 Of our native forms it approaches nearest to Scolopocerus Uhl., if the Mex- 

 ican species described by Distant be included therein, but the structure of 

 the antenna again is different, The body is of a more or less oval shape, 

 the broader end posterior. Head moderately small, rounded, of about 

 equal length and breadth, the front between the antenna never greatly, 

 sometimes scarcely, advanced ; antenna? not more than half as long as the 

 body, the basal joint stout, cylindrical, about as long as the head, 

 the second and third joints subequal, long, slender, and sometimes, 



