114 Psyche [August 



Head rather elongated, widening but little behind the antennae. 

 Temporal margins very slightly convex and nearly parallel. A 

 long slender hair and a very inconspicuous spine slightly in from 

 the margin near each posterior lateral angle. A few extremely 

 minute spines along the temporal angles, the anterior margin 

 and the transverse suture behind the antennae. Ventral side of 

 the head with a single hair near the base of each antenna. An- 

 tennae rather slender, of the type common to the genus. 



Thorax slightly shorter than the head and about as wide as the 

 head is long. Lateral margins strongly convex. Mesothorax 



with a single slender hair on each 

 side just in from the spiracle. Ster- 

 nal plate somewhat elongated, pro- 

 duced posteriorly into a blunt point; 

 'J/ [ longer and more pointed than in H. 



"■■■ arbor icola. Legs of the type common 



Q l^y to the genus. 



Abdomen, elongated oval. First 

 segment apparently without spines. 

 'Q -\ Second tergite with two narrow 



transverse plates, each bearing two 

 widely separated pairs of slender 

 O "^"^ spines. Third segment with two 

 plates, each with six or seven slender 

 hairs. Fourth to seventh segments 

 O H each with three very narrow plates, 

 these plates being about half as long 

 as the segments are wide. The plates 

 O } of the fourth to sixth segments each 



bear six to eight awl-shaped spines. 

 First plate of the seventh segment 

 with six spines and the others with 

 four each. Eighth segment with one 

 plate and four spines. On the fourth 

 to sixth segments there are, between 

 \ ' the pleural plates and the tergites, 



Fig. 9. A, pleural plates of two groups of three to five spines. 



Hoplopleura hirsuta ,p nov.; ^hc seventh Segment bears one such 

 if, pleural plates ol Hoplopleura ° 



quadridenfafa (Neum.). group. 



