110 Psyche [August 
posterior margin of metathorax, outline of abdomen, and peculiar 
abdominal lateral plates. 
Description of Female. Total length, 1.55 mm.; length of head, 
466 mm.; length of prothorax, .095 mm.; length of metathorax, 
.206 mm.; length of abdomen, .784 mm.; width of head across 
temples, .286 mm.; width of prothorax, .191 mm.; width of meta- 
thorax, .244 mm.; width of abdomen, .339 mm. 
Head flat-iron shaped, five-eighths again as long as wide, fore- 
head rather quickly narrowed to the narrowly truncate front which 
bears at each side a clavate appendage and a hair of equal length. 
‘Temporal borders sub-parallel; occipital margin nearly straight. 
Antennal sinuses rather shallow. Trabecule quite prominent. 
Ocular projections missing. Antennal bands extend from the 
clavate appendages to the ocular flecks, interrupted by the con- 
spicuous clypeal sutures and again by the inward-pointing hyaline 
bars arising at the trabecule. Temples narrowly margined with 
brownish. Occiput with a thickened, clear border. Clypeus 
clearly demarked by the forward-angulated suture, and split by 
a median suture. Temples pale amber. A large, pale, irregular 
shaped occipital signature. General color very pale. A hair at 
the clypeal suture, two before the trabeculze, one at hind angle 
of antennal sinuses, one on hind third of temples. Antenne 
reaching behind occipital border. faintly margined and banded. 
Thorax about one-quarter as long as broad. Prothorax lenticu- 
lar with weakly convex anterior and posterior borders, bisected 
faintly by a median clear bar which also bisects the metathorax. 
Bordered laterally by a pale margin. A weak spine at the pos- 
terior lateral angles. Metathorax pentagonal, the posterior mar- 
gin strongly angulated on the first abdominal segment. Three 
long, pustulated hairs at the lateral angles. Like the prothorax, 
the general color is pale amber with colorless lateral borders. 
Legs rather small, pale. 
Abdomen clavate, widest on the fourth segment. Posterior 
lateral angles of segments 2 to 8 with hairs as follows: Segment 
2, a prickle; segment 3, a short spine; segment 4, a strong spine; 
segment 5, a long hair; segment 6, two long hairs; segment 7, 
two long hairs; segment 8, a short hair. Segment 9 has four short 
hairs and two prickles. Segments 1 to 8 inclusive are provided 
