Sept , 1907. J 



Banks : New Trichoptera and Psocid^. 



163 



Neureclipsis parvula, new species. 



Head brown in middle, posterior warts yellow, as also those of prothorax and 

 lateral lobes of mesothorax ; all warts bearing dense tufts of long yellow hair ; antennse 

 and palpi yellow ; abdomen brown, the ventral segments miargined with pale ; anal 

 appendages yellow ; legs clear, pale yellow. Wings yellowish, with yellow hair, 

 venation pale, four whitish hyaline cross-veins : the arculus, one connecting cubitus 

 to median, that between the forks of the median, and one from median to radial sec- 

 tor ; hind wings yellowish, dusky toward tip. Expanse 1 1 mm. 



Several specimens from Washington, D. C, High Island and 

 Plummer's Island, Md.; June 17 to August 29. 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 



Orthotrichia nigritta, new species. 



Black, densely clothed with deep black hair, which in some lights shows pur- 

 plish reflections ; some brown hair on mesothorax, and on wings just before the up- 

 turned tips, and the fringe, both costal and apical, brown ; antennae brown ; legs 

 brown, the tarsal joints paler on tips. Male genitalia shows a broad leaf-like plate 

 each side, and a narrow, very hairy piece each side below it. Expanse 5.5 mm. 



Three specimens from Austin, Texas, March i. 



Fig. 4. 



Fig. 5. 



Hydroptila transversa, new species. 



Head with gray hair on face, black between antenna;, and white on vertex, 

 antennre yellowish white, with a dusky band near middle, and the tip broadly dark ; 

 white hair on thorax, with some brown at base of wings ; abdomen mostly clothed 

 with white hair ; legs pale yellowish, with yellowish hair, tibia and part of tarsus one 

 darker, other tarsi also darker, and a long gray fringe from hind tibia of male. 

 \Yings mostly black-haired, not densely so ; a very narrow, and not always distinctly 

 complete transverse white line across wing near middle, beyond is one pale spot in 



