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Psyche 
[December 
Described from one female and one male, taken by J. B. 
Rorer at Hacienda Pretoria, near Barraganetal, Equador, De- 
cember 29, 1917, on “cojojo” [C. B. Williams, No. 1058.] 
Close to errans and brunneipennis, but differing from both 
in the non-specialization of the metascutum, the clouded an- 
tennae, the incompletely divided tenth abdominal segment, and 
various other details. 
Tryphactothrips lineatus sp. nov. 
Female ( macropterous . — Length about 1.05 mm. Dorsal 
surface deeply reticulate. Color yellowish brown, with head, 
prothorax, middle of pterothorax, and last two or three ab- 
dominal segments more yellowish; segment 10 of abdomen gray 
in apical sixth; antennae yellow, with segment 2 decidedly darker 
than 1 and brownish at sides and base, 3-5 clear lemon yellow, 
6-8 blackish brown excepting yellowish base of 6 ; fore legs yellow 
with tibiae shaded with blackish brown on inner surface, mid and 
hind legs brown with tarsi, knees, and bases of femora yellow; 
fore wings yellowish at base and along veins, with two indistinct 
brown bands, one occupying the third tenth, the other the seventh 
tenth, and with two or three very faint maculations between the 
bands and one at extreme tip of wing, all of these wing markings 
produced by darker pubescence; wing bristles nearly black in 
basal half, nearly white beyond. Vertex produced, overhanging 
insertion of antennae; occiput without a crescentic series of large 
reticulations; antennoe eight-segmented ; segment 1 short, sub- 
cylindrical, about as broad as long; 2 broadest in entire antenna; 
3 slender, vasiform, about 4.3 times as long as wide; 4 asym- 
metrical, swollen on outer surface; 5 clavate, broadest at apical 
fourth or fifth; 6 with a stout pedicel which is nearly twice as 
thick as that of 5, somewhat obliquely united at apex to 7, the 
two forming a compact mass; 8 slender, about six times as long 
as basal width; sense cones slender, those on 3 and 4 bifurcate 
beyond base (Y-shaped). Mesoscutum without median suture, 
but acutely notched behind. Wings of fore pair with first longi- 
tudinal vein united with ambient vein, posterior vein not so 
united, one bristle at their fork and three basally; anterior vein 
