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Psyche 
[Vol. 94 
pedicel yellow; flagellum dark brown; coxae dark brown; trochan- 
ters yellowish brown; femora brown, becoming yellow apically; 
tibiae and tarsi yellow; wings lightly brown-tinted; abdominal seg- 
ments brown. 
Female. Unknown. 
Holotype male — ECUADOR: Pastaza, 22 km sw Puyo, 900 m, 
14-16 July 1976, S. and J. Peck (OTTAWA). 
Discussion. In simplifacies the face is longer and narrower than 
alvarengai and the clypeus is angulate medially. 
Duckeia gracile Kimsey, new species 
(Fig. 1) 
Holotype female. Body length 3.5 mm. Face (fig. 1), long and 
narrow, 0.9X as long as broad; scapal basin long and densely cross- 
ridged; midocellus 1 MOD from ocular margin; malar space 3.3 
MOD; subantennal distance 0.4 MOD; genal flange small and 
short; occipital carina absent dorsally; facial punctures coarse and 
contiguous; eyes strongly converging dorsally; F-I length 2.9X 
breadth; F-II 1.3X as long as broad; pronotum 0.9X as long as 
scutum, narrower than head; scutum with parapsides and notauli 
complete and well-developed, notauli strongly converging poste- 
riorly; mesopleuron with small, simple scrobal pit and impunctate 
stripe along posterior margin; metanotum 0.4X as long as scutel- 
lum; thoracic dorsum with contiguous shallow punctures becoming 
smaller on scutum and scutellum, metanotal punctures contrast- 
ingly deeper and larger; forewing with brown spot across stigma and 
RS; propodeum with posterior surface coarsely rugose between 
carinae; abdominal punctures small, shallow and 0.5- 1.0 PD apart. 
Body dark brown, except head with blue tints, antenna dark brown; 
legs, including coxae dark brown becoming red on tarsi, mesopleu- 
ron with ventral and posterior reddish stripe and T-II with faint 
bluish tint on lateral margin. 
Male. Same as female. 
Holotype female — BRAZIL: Represa Rio Grande, Guanabara, 
July 1972, M. Alvarenga (OTTAWA). 
Discussion. The most distinctive features of this species are the 
slender compressed body, narrow face, the faint metallic color and 
