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Psyche 
[September 
The hind femur bears 8 bristles, which includes 1 at apex 
and 2 weak, dorsomedial elements at apex; ventrally there 
is a moderately abundant fringe of long, fine, stiff hairs. 
Apex of antdrior tibia without spine. Claws sharp ; 
pulvilli well developed. Wings: The wings are hyaline 
and the marginal cell open. Fourth posterior cell narrowed 
to two-thirds its maximum width; anal cell widely open. 
Alula narrow and linear; ambient vein complete. Abdomen : 
The abdomen is slender and somewhat compressed. Seven 
tergites in the male with the eighth present only as a 
linear flap; all tergites without bristles. Male terminalia 
large, rotate ; the hypandrium long, drawn out into a 
long process arched downward over the remainder of 
terminalia. 
Broticosia rapax new species 
Length 13 mm. 
Female. Head: The head is black everywhere, includ- 
ing antennae. The pile on the lower third of the occiput 
is light brownish yellow, except for a fringe of fine, black 
hairs along the outer margin of the occiput. The pile 
on the base of the proboscis is yellow, except laterally 
where it is black. The predominantly black mystax has 
3 or 4 yellow hairs in the middle or at the epistomal margin. 
All other pile and bristles of the face black. The upper 
part of occiput has long, abundant, very fine, stiff hairs, 
becoming very slightly stouter dorsally but nowhere be- 
coming bristles. Ventral surface of first antennal segment 
and a narrow, medial band over the entire length of face 
and the gibbosity covered with quite long, numerous, 
slender, black, bristly hairs. Whole face with appressed, 
whitish pubescence continued on the cheeks. The antenna 
are quite slender, the third antennal segment is attenuate 
and bears a short, broad, oval, spoon-shaped microsegment 
containing a small spine. Thorax: The thorax is polished 
black, scantily covered over the sides of the mesonotum. 
Scutellar disc and pleuron with an exceptionally fine, 
whitish micropubescence, which on the anterior half of 
the thorax is more pollen-like and on the posterior half 
somewhat coarser. There are fine, long, acrostical, bristly 
