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Psyche 
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erect black hairs; apical fasciae poorly developed, represented by 
mere tufts of whitish pubescence at extreme sides of segment 1, 
and widely interrupted on segments 2-4; segment 5 without an 
apical fascia; segment 6 with a low inconspicuous carina, which 
is broadly, shallowly and evenly emarginate medially, otherwise 
entire, the segment above the carina with ochraceous appressed 
pubescence and scattered long erect black hairs; morphological 
apex of segment carinate on either side of the middle, the carina 
low and inconspicuous, extending to the lateral teeth which are 
vestigeal; segment 7 pointed; venter with three unmodified 
visible segments, which are fringed with white hair apicaily, 
the fourth segment visible, but membranous and transparent, 
considerably modified from the usual condition. Length 8 mm. 
Type: Female (Type No. 15706, Mus. Comp. Zool.); Soledad, 
Cuba, May 22, 1925. Allotype; Mina Carlota, Trinidad Mts., 
Cuba, 1500 ft. altitude, on flowers of Neurolcena limbata, March 
25, 1925. Paratypes: 2 females; Mina Carlota, March 25, on 
Neurolcena ; 1 female, Soledad, June 1 , on flowers of Parkinsonia 
aculeata ; 1 female, Soledad, June 20, on flowers of Psidium 
cattleyanum ; 2 males, Mina Carlota, March 25, on Neurolcena, 
and 1 male, Soledad, June 20. All of the series collected by Dr. 
George Salt. Two of the paratype males, one from each of the 
localities cited, vary from what has been designated as the type 
form in having entirely black legs, and with the pubescence more 
nearly pure white. 
In general form, and in structure of the clypeus, mandibles, 
cheeks and vertex in both sexes, and in the form of the apical 
abdominal segment in the male, this species closely resembles M. 
petulans Cress, to which it is evidently very closely related. The 
cheeks are slightly narrower than in petulans however, and the 
clypeus is less strongly and closely punctured in the female. 
In the male the carina of segment 6 is much less deeply emargi- 
nate, and the fourth ventral segment is modified. The color of 
the pubescence and the red femora and tibiae at once distinguish 
them, however. Of the Cuban species, this superficially resembles 
M. poeyi Guer. but here again the color of the legs will serve to 
distinguish them. 
