142 Psyche [August 



VULTUROPS FLORIDENSIS, A NEW MEMBER OF THE 



PSOCID SUBFAMILY VULTUROPIN.E FROM THE 



UNITED STATES.i 



By G. H. Corbett and E. Hargreaves, 

 Carnegie Students, Bussey Institution, Harvard UniA-ersity. 



The subfamily Vulturopinse was erected by C. H. T. Townsend 

 in 1912 to include a very peculiar member of the Order Corrodentia 

 from Peru.- The type species, Vnlturops termitorum, was found 

 in the covered runways of a species of Hamitermes at Piura in 

 northern Peru. 



Recently, on examining some iUeurodidte taken from an orange 

 tree at Orlando, Fla., on October J, IDll-, we were very much 

 surprised to find with them one adult specimen which is very closely 

 related to the Peruvian form. The North American species is 

 very similar to V. termitorum, but differs in wing neuration as well 

 as in other characters and evidently represents a distinct species of 

 the same genus. 



Vulturops floridensis sp. nov 

 The insect as a whole is dark brown in color, the thorax and 

 head being darker than the abdomen, and is about 1.6 mm. in 

 length. 



Wrings (fig. 1). Only one pair present. They are somewhat elliptical, 1 mm. 

 in length, about two and a half times longer than broad; for comparison, a reproduc- 

 tion of the wing of V. termitorum is given (fig. 2). On the dorsal smiace chiefly 

 along the veins are structures resembling spine bases, although there were no traces 

 of the spines themselves. They also occur to some extent on the ventral surface. 

 The wing-veins are very prominent, and are accompanied alongside by areas which 

 are probably blood smuses (shaded in figure) . 



Legs (fig.3). The hind legs are about 1^ times the length of the others, the coxse, 

 femora, tibiae and first tarsal segment, being each respectively much longer (for 

 comparison, see figs. 4, 5, 7). The tibiae exhibit a kind of pseudosegmentation, each 

 di^^sion being very finely striated longitudinally. This is also e\ndent in the first 

 tarsal segments (fig. 6). On the hind tibiae are three strong spines which are absent 

 in the two anterior pairs (fig. 5). The second and third tarsal segments are clothed 

 with very fine hairs. The tarsi terminate in a pair of sharp, toothed claws. 



1 Contributiona from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institution, Harv^ard Uni- 

 versity, No. 92. 



2 Entom. News, Vol. 23, pp. 266-269. (1912.) 



