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PSYCHE 
[October 
Character. 
iS. dichrous Sm. 
S. obscurans n. .sp. 
S. lautus n. sp. 
S. persimilis n. sp. 
Head. Front. 
Punctures large 
and deep with the 
shining intervals 
plainly visible. 
Punctures very 
close and quite 
small, Imt very 
distinct. Short 
transverse head. 
Punctures large. 
Coarsely punc- 
tured. dull. 
Eyes. 
Black. 
Paler. 
Intense black. 
Apparently brown 
in life, convex 
below. 
Clypeus 
Coarsely punc- 
tured. 
Large iiunetures 
widely separated 
in the middle, a 
median sulcus. 
Large punctures. 
Densely and con- 
fluently punc- 
tured. 
Wings 
Reddened, but less 
so than in obscur- 
a7is and persimilis. 
Strongly reddish. 
Dusky hyaline. 
Strongly reddish. 
Tegulae. 
Dark. 
Lighter. 
Dark. 
Lighter. 
Mesothorax. 
Shining, with 
widely separated 
punctures. 
Dull, with sparse 
weak punctures. 
.Shining, sparsely 
punctured. 
Densely and 
coarsely punc- 
tured. 
Area of meta- 
thorax. 
Ridges chiefly lon- 
gitudinal, with a 
few cross ones. 
Strongly reticula- 
ted. margin not 
well-defined. 
Strongly, irregu- 
larly ridged, mar- 
gin poorly de- 
fined. 
Irregularly ridged. 
Punctuation 
of abdomen. 
Distinctly but not 
closely punctured 
1 st segment 
sparsely segs. 2-4 
except on apical 
margins. 
Segment t im- 
punctate, segs. 2- 
4 with minute 
punctures on ba- 
sal third. 
Finely punctured 
segment 1 sparse- 
ly, segs. 2-4 all 
over. 
Segments 1 and 2 
nearly impunc- 
tate, segs. 3-4 
with small punc- 
tures at base. 
Sphecodes phosphorus n. sp. 
$ . — Length S mm. Head and thorax black; abdominal segment.s 1-3 dark 
red, very shiny, the apical .segment.s black, or the fourth partly reddish. Face 
thinly clothed with white pubescence; densely and finely punctuated above the 
antennae and on the vertex; mandibles liidentate, black at base with dark red apices. 
IMesothorax smooth and shining, with sparse distinct punctures, the median sulcus 
evident. AVings dusky hyaline, with a distinct brown tint, stigma and nervures 
dark rufo-fuscous, tegulae rufo-fuscous. Enclosure of metathorax well-defined 
