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Psyche 
[February 
punctate laterally, apical margin slightly concave medially, with 
a slight median tubercle, pubescence white with a faint ochra- 
ceous tinge, and with a few long black hairs laterally; mandibles 
broad, 4-dentate, the third tooth truncate, almost impunctate 
and tinged with red above, with fine close punctures at base in 
front, with a distinct line above leading from the incision between 
the two apical teeth almost to the base; cheeks very narrow, 
carinate posteriorly, rather finely punctate, and entirely white 
pubescent; vertex very short, sparsely punctate, being almost 
impunctate between the eyes and ocelli, with conspicuous, 
rather long, erect black pubescence; ocelli much nearer edge of 
vertex than to nearest eye; front below ocelli closely punctate, 
with mixed black and white pubescence; antennae black above, 
more piceous below; pubescence white on inner orbits, and 
around and between the antennae. 
Thorax mostly white pubescent below and at sides; meso- 
notum sparsely punctured medially, more closely so around the 
margin, rather dull, pubescence black in general, but pale ochra- 
ceous anteriorly, with two conspicuous anterior oblique lines of 
white pubescence, and a very conspicuous line of short whitish 
appressed pubescence in the suture between the mesonotum and 
scutellum, reaching across from one tegula to the other; scu- 
tellum finely and closely punctured, with pubescence entire y 
black, contrasting with the white pubescence just below on the 
narrow metanotal plate and propodeum; pleura rather closely 
punctured, white pubescent, but with a round spot of black 
pubescence just beneath the wings; propodeum tessellate, with 
scattered very fine punctures, basal triangle impunctate, tes- 
sellate; tegulae blackish, finely punctured, with a tuft of white 
pubescence in front; wings subhyaline, slightly infuscated apical- 
ly, nervures blackish, basal nervure beyond transverse median, 
second recurrent nervure entering second submarginal cell nearer 
apex than the first does to base; legs white pubescent, that on 
the tarsi beneath brownish ; all the coxae black, trochanters black 
to obscure red, all the femora and tibiae bright red, all the tarsi 
deep black, contrasting strongly with the tibiae and femora, hind 
metatarsi very broad and rather short; claws yellowish basally, 
