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Psyche 
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thickened and slightly grooved; mandibles black, broad, with a 
few scattered punctures above, 4-dentate, but the margin be- 
tween the two inner teeth with a slight angular protuberance, 
approaching the 5-dentate condition; cheeks quite narrow and 
quite closely punctured, with short, rather dense, white pubes- 
cence; vertex very slightly rounded, the punctures distinct and 
well separated, surface shining between the punctures, pubes- 
cence black, erect, and quite long; lateral ocelli about equally 
distant from eyes and edge of vertex; front below ocelli densely 
punctate; antennae piceous below, somewhat darker above, 
length of middle joints about one and a half times their breadth; 
pubescence of face below anterior ocellus white, slightly mixed 
with black above antennae, very thin on clypeus. 
Thorax with pubescence largely white, but mostly black on 
mesonotum posteriorly, mixed with white in the middle, and 
largely replaced by white anteriorly, with some shorter whitish 
pubescence in the scutello-mesothoracic suture, but this not 
conspicuous; mesonotum with punctures quite close, more or 
less separated in center, the surface between them tessellate; 
scutellum closely punctured, the punctures separated medially, 
with long black hairs and shorter, softer, white pubescence; 
pleura with punctures fine and crowded above, larger and dis- 
tinctly separated below; propodeum tessellate, the punctures 
very fine and indistinct, basal triangle tessellate below, granular 
or subrugose above; tegulse piceous, obscurely testaceous an- 
teriorly, with fine shallow punctures; wings subhyaline, faintly 
clouded apically, nervures yellowish-ferruginous, second recur- 
rent nervure entering second submarginal cell very near the 
apex, the first rather far from base; legs piceous to dark red, 
white pubescent, yellow on tarsi beneath; middle tarsi slightly 
narrower than the tibiae, densely pale pubescent without, the 
following joints but slightly narrowed; hind metatarsi slightly 
narrower than the tibiae; spurs pale yellow; claws with distinct 
basal teeth, darker apically, pale basally. 
Abdomen cordate, short black pubescent, but the pubescence 
entirely white on segments 1 and 2, and segments 2-5 with white 
apical fasciae, these entire but rather narrow; segment 6 slightly 
concave at sides viewed from above, the apex rather evenly 
