Vol. xxii] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



2T 



Nirmus fuscus Nitzsch. 

 Several specimens from "hawk" (Cochabamba, Bolivia) ; 

 also from "hawk" (Charuplaya, Bolivia). 



Lipeurus temporalis Nitzsch. 

 Several specimens from "river duck" (Charuplaya, Bolivia). 



Lipeurus epiphanes n. sp. (Fig. 2.) 

 Male and female from "desert curlew" (Lagonillas, Bo- 

 livia). 



Description of female. — Body length, 2.88 mm.; width, .56 mm. 

 Head: Length, .6 mm.; width, .34 mm.; conical. Clypeus parabolic 

 in front, sides almost straight and parallel; edge transparent with 

 signature concentric to it ; suture distinct ; a rather long hair at the 



Fig. 2 — Lipeurus epiphanes n. sp. — a, female ; b, tactile hairs i f the postero-lateral 

 angle of the metathorax ; c, head of male ; d, last abdominal segments of male. 



angle between the straight side and the parabolic front, and three 

 long ones at the suture. Sides of head behind the clypeal suture 

 straight, diverging to the antennae and bordered by the prominent 

 antennal bands; these bands turn inward at the clypeal suture, fol- 



