14 
Psyche 
[Mar. 
short. Scape white below, above black and black out to 
the rufous last joint; hind ocelli nearer to eyes than to 
each other, small pale spot back of upper eye. 
Two pale spots on pronotum, a band on scutellum, and 
a long* stripe on propodeum, this has a recurved hook at 
upper end just below sides of enclosure, latter is coarsely 
punctate, much as on propodeum. First segment of ab- 
domen with a pale yellowish band, sometimes with sides 
extended forward ; third segment wholly pale above, 
fourth and fifth segments with a broad emargination in 
front ; venter with two or three yellowish spots each side ; 
pygidium fully as long as broad in middle, ends equals 
two-tliirds of middle width. 
Legs mostly black, front and mid femora pale on outer 
half below, basitarsus pale, rest brown, hind femora pale 
at tip, tibiae pale beneath, tarsi dark. 
Wings hyaline, fore wings with a broad dark costal 
streak, covering marginal cell and widened a little toward 
tip, second submarginal cell broad and low, the pedicel 
almost as long as height of cell. 
Face with some white hair, vertex with some dark, but 
most of body with little and short as in C. insolita. 
Length of female 9.5 to 11 mm. 
Male. Similar to female, but face wholly pale below 
the antennae and lateral face-marks not extending so high. 
The clypeus is higher than broad, a little swollen, lower 
edge quite short, and with two stout, blunt teeth near 
middle. Mandibles almost entirely black, extreme tip 
rufous ; third antennal joint plainly a little longer than 
fourth. Other marks much as in female except on pro- 
podeum only a small spot or dot pale, and on venter are 
two or three pale bands; the wings have the same dark 
costal streak; enclosure mostly punctured as on pro- 
podeum ; pygidium much as in female, fully twice as long 
as broad in middle, tip truncate, fully equal base and 
about two-tliirds of middle width, sides a little curved, 
with large punctures and black hair; end of subgenital 
plate with a fairly long, sharp spine each side. 
Length of male 6 to 8.5 mm. 
From Patagonia, Arizona, 1 to 4 August (Bequaert). 
Type M.C.Z. no. 27637. 
