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Vulturopinae, a new Subfamily of the Psocidae; type 
Vulturops gen. nov. (Platyp., Corrod.). 
By Cuar_Les H. T. TOWNSEND, Piura, Peru. 
The following very interesting insect was found by me 
some time ago in Piura, in north-western Peru. It evidently 
forms the type not only of a new genus but of a new sub- 
family. New forms of the lower and more primitive types of 
insects, like the present, coming from the west coast region 
of South America, possess a greatly added interest from the 
fact that they will quite certainly throw much light on early 
land connections between South America, Africa and Aus- 
tralasia, when the faunas of all three regions shall have been 
more thoroughly investigated. 
Aside from the novelty of this form, and the biogeographic 
interest attaching to it, it is remarkable as being termitophil- 
ous in habit. In view of all these facts, 1 venture to describe 
it for the purpose of record. 
VULTUROPINAE new subfamily. 
Differs from the Psocine as follows :— 
A pair of subanal cerci present, with a tubercle just above 
them; these and end of abdomen with hairs. Abdomen sub- 
globular, apparently of ten segments; thorax and abdomen 
stout, rather suggestive of the form of Sminthurus. Only 
one pair of wings developed, the anterior pair, the costa and 
veins heavy and sparsely set with long curved spine-like 
bristles ; posterior wings atrophied, calypter-like or mere pads. 
Fic. 1.—Vulturops termitorum n. sp.—Right anterior wing, upper surface, the bristles 
all detached. 
