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Psyche 
[September-December 
Variation. Heterogonic development affects the male metafem- 
oral tooth. It varies in shape from sharply pointed in smaller 
individuals to more broadly blunt in more developed individuals. 
Collection data of the ten known specimens suggests that the 
species occurs throughout the island, at least from Windsor in the 
west to Ecclesdown in the east, and from the lowlands (500 feet at 
Windsor) to montane sites (5000 feet at Morces Gap). 
Apheloplastus microps new species 
Figs. 5, 7. 
Holotype male in CNC. Locality and data. Jamaica. St. Andrew 
Parish. Morces Gap, 5000 feet, 8.1.73, S. & J. Peck, litter Berlese 
258. 
Diagnosis. The species is distinguished by its restriction to high 
elevation forests of Jamaica, its small eye, lack of elytral striae, 
strongly reduced wings, and aedeagus. 
Description. Length 0.9 mm, width 0.7 mm. Color uniformly 
darker brown. Eye reduced in size, about twice as long as wide 
(fig. 5). Head and pronotum lightly punctured. Elytra with small, 
sparsely distributed hairs; with no trace of punctate striae. Meta- 
sternum without strong punctures. Flight wings reduced to tiny 
paddle-shaped rudiments. Male meso- and meta-femora with ven- 
tral flange extending over tibiae when reflexed, but apices broadly 
rounded, teeth not present. Aedeagus (fig. 7) with thin lobes at tip 
in dorsal view, parameres clearly shorter than median piece. 
The species is known only from the holotype male. It was taken 
in a litter sample along with one female A. jamaicensis so the spe- 
cies are sympatric at this site. Slide preparations were not made 
of the legs of the unique, so they could not be illustrated. 
Apheloplastus puertoricensis new species 
Figs. 3, 8. 
Holotype male in CNC. Type locality and data. Puerto Rico. 
Forest at Aguas Buenas Cave, 250 m elev. (near town of Aguas 
Buenas, about 15 mi S of San Juan), 7-1 7. V. 73, S. Peck, Berlese 
265. 
Diagnosis. The species is distinguished by its restriction to Puerto 
Rico, and the shapes of the male hind femora and tibiae, and ae- 
deagus. 
