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maritime and coast birds) is thoroughly distinct from the other 

 species of the group. The unusual disproportion in length be- 

 tween the head and the rest of the body give it an odd large- 

 headed appearance. 



Male, body, length, 2 mm.; width, .55 mm.; with strong 

 median dorsal blotches on the short abdomen; head and thorax 

 with colored lateral margins. 



Fig. 39. Lipeurus absitus, new species. 



Head, length, .7 mm.; width, .5 mm.; clypeal front flatly 

 convex with distinct clear margin beyond the signature, which 

 is distinct; strongly colored lateral clypeal bands distinctly in- 

 terrupted by a suture, and with the ends expanding inwards; a 

 few conspicuous hairs along lateral clypeal margins ; temples not 

 strongly expanded, nor temporal angles produced ; antennae with 

 enlarged first segment without appendage but with a short hair 

 on a slight swelling, third segment with well-marked lateral pro- 

 cess. Head unicolorous except for the darker clypeal bands and 

 signature. 



Prothorax small and with lateral and posterior margin 

 straight ; metathorax with very obtuse but distinct median angle 

 on the posterior margin ; two or three longish flexible hairs in 

 posterior lateral angles. Fairly unicolorous golden brown. 



