83 Psyche [June 



Transfacial line or greatest width of head : facial line or great- 

 est distance from top of head to apex of clypens : : 43 : 33. 



Female. — Length 13.5 mm.; head dullish black and densely 

 sculptured, except on the temples and occiput, where it is rather 

 indefinitely pitted and shining, head covered with silvery pubes- 

 cence, lateral ocellar line shorter than the postocellar line and 

 apparently as long as the ocellocular line and the greatest diameter 

 of the lateral ocelli, eyes distinctly emarginate, malar line appar- 

 ently not more than half as long as the mandibles are wide at Ijase, 

 ocelloccipital line apparently more than twice as long as the ocello- 

 cular line, occiput hardly extending behind a vertical plane tangent 

 to the hind ocelli, axial line or greatest axial diameter of head : 

 the temporal line or greatest diameter of temples : : 31 : 6. clypeus 

 finely granular and punctured, truncate, mandibles black with black- 

 ish castaneous ti]")s, palpi mostly pale, antenna? black, -il-jointed, 

 scape nearly as thick as long, pedicel apparently less than half the 

 length of the scape, joint 3 distinctly longer than 4 but shorter 

 than 4-(-5 and nearly four times as long as thick at apex, following 

 joints subequal in length, excejit the ultimate joint, which is dis- 

 tinctly longer than the penultimate joint, the latter joint almost 

 exactly as thick as long; thorax, colored, sculptured and pul)escent 

 much like the head, mesonotum densely reticulated and punctured, 

 notauli completely wanting, pronotum dorsally ratl>er smooth, lat- 

 erally striate, mesopleurse with the u])])er half mostly almost sculp- 

 tureless and polished partly punctured and striate, the lower half 

 and the mesosternum granular and punctured much like the meso- 

 notum, scutel and inetauotum more densely sculptured tban tbe 

 mesonotum and densely covered with silvery pubescence, meta- 

 pleurffi sculptured and pubescent much like the mesonotum, wings 

 almost colorless with a brownish tinge that is intensified along the 

 margin of the apical fourth, veins and stigma blackish except 

 bullse which are whitish and the cubitus beyond the second trans- 

 verse cubitus which is mostly brownish stramineous, areolet petio- 

 late receiving the recurrent vein beyond its middle, wing base pale 

 stramineous, tegulfe black, coxa?, trochanters and femora mostly 

 black, femora yellowish at apex, fore femora brownish stramineous^ 



