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Psyche 
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basal to fork. Abdomen with last segment short and broad; 
iergiies 2-7 striate , rather than reticulate, at sides, the lines curving 
outward and backward; bristles not long, yellowish and incon- 
spicuous. 
Measurements of holotype ($): Length 1.05 mm.; head, 
length 0. 140 mm., greatest width (behind eyes) 0. 196 mm., least 
width (across eyes) 0. 184 mm.; eyes, length 0.082 mm., interval 
0.096 mm.; prothorax, median length of pronotum 0. 102 mm., 
width 0.220 mm.; pterothorax, width 0.293 mm.; fore wings, 
length 0.810 mm., width at middle 0.044 mm.; abdomen, width* 
0.318 mm.; segment 9, length 0.116 mm.; segment 10, length 
0.049 mm., width at base 0. 080 mm. 
Antennal segments: 12345678 
Length ( M ) 24 48 73 58 40 34 16 30 
Width ( M ) *26 32 24 23 17 16 8 5 
Total length of antenna 0.32 mm. 
Described from a unique female taken at St. Annes, Trinidad; 
in the British West Indies, March 28, 1915 by C. B. Williams; 
from an unidentified plant. [C. B. W., No. 614.] 
A very distinct and most interesting species, resembling 
brunneipennis in wing coloration but related more intimately to 
striaius, phaseoli, and their allies. The sculpture, large head, an- 
teriorly tubercled cheeks, and peculiarly colored antennae are 
distinctive. 
Hercothrips funebris sp. nov. 
Female (macropterous) . — Length about 1. 1 mm. Color near- 
ly black (quite so in abdomen), head and thorax paler; antennae 
brown, with segments 1 and 2 paler, and the basal half of 3, 
basal third of 4, and basal two-thirds of 5, grayish white; fore 
legs brown, with trochanters, tips of tibiae, and tarsi pale 
yellow, nearly white; mid and hind legs similarly colored, but 
with the dark portions nearly black; fore wings nearly uniform 
dark brown, with a pale transverse band just beyond scale, with 
a dark streak at base in front of principal vein and another be- 
hind it, and with the costal half of wing just beyond the pale 
band and the extreme tip, nearly black. Dorsal surface of head, 
