Specimens Host Locality Date Collector 



35 9, 9 a" Philohe la minor Kingston, RI VI-25-1902 A.Moorehouse 



Ehynonirmns scolopaois (Denny, 1842) 



Nirmus scolopaois Denny, 1842, Mon. Anopl. Brit.: 54 and 149, 



pi. 2, fig. 8. 

 Nirmus trunaatus Nitzsch, 1866 (nee Olfers, 1816). In Giebel, Z. 



ges. NatWiss., 28: 375. 

 Lipeurus emarginatus Piaget, 1880. Les Pediculines: 328, pi. 28, 



fig. 2. 

 Nirmus trunaatus magnocephalus Carriker, 1902. J. N. Y. Ent . 



Soc. , 10: 218, pi. 20, fig. 4. 

 Type host: Capella gallinago (Linnaeus) — Common Snipe. 



Carriker (1902) reports this species from Nebraska. I have not 

 collected this species and have no records of its collection in New 

 England. 



Measurements: Rhynonirmus soolopacis (Denny, 1842) 

 (from Carriker, 1902) 



9 



Head Length .46 



Head Width .31 



Abdomen Width .34 



Total Length 1.70 



ROTUNDICEPS 



Rotundiceps Edwards, 1952. Psyche, 59: 28. 



Type species: Nirmus cordatus Osborn, 1896. 



Head broadly rounded, slightly broader than long, only slightly 

 buttressed marginally. Relatively strongly buttressed around the 

 bases of the antennae and mandibular articulations. Signature only 

 barely represented by small irregular sclerotized area. Posterior 

 margin of head armed with short stout setae. Rounded, lightly 

 sclerotized gular area. Posterior margin of pterothorax with com- 

 plete although irregular row of long setae. Abdomen slightly longer 

 than broad, lightly sclerotized without obvious delineation of ter- 

 gites and sternites . Spiracles 6, on morphological segments III-VIII. 

 Mid-dorsal and mid-ventral double rows of setae on proximal 7 segments. 

 All spiracles except 1st and last with long setae posterior to each on 

 border of tergite. In male, the first 6 tergites narrowed medially; 

 with 7th separated into 2 parts, the 8th complete. Male genital open- 

 ing dorso-terminal. 



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